The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.