2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.