2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Seek Virtue, and, of that possessed, To Providence, resign the rest.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

He that whines for Glass without G/ Take away L and that's he.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicious about them.