Benjamin Franklin Quotes That Will Change the Way You Think and Live

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Whatever you become be good at it.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Remember that credit is money.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.