Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
There are in life real evils enough and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones.
– Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
– Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
– Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
– Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
– Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
– Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
– Benjamin Franklin
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
– Benjamin Franklin
“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
– Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is just like a fish between two cats.
– Benjamin Franklin
“The noblest question in the world is: ‘What good may I do in it?'”
– Benjamin Franklin
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
– Benjamin Franklin
‘Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.’
– Benjamin Franklin
Well Done Is Better Than Well Said
– Benjamin Franklin
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin
