Last Updated on 21 June 2024

Quotes from Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

• Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.
• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.
• Glass, china, and reputation are easily crack’d, and never well mended.
• He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
• He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
• If you would know the value of money, go and borrow some.
• It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
• Lost time is never found again.
• Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
• Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.
• Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
• Remember that time is money.
• A right heart exceeds all.
• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
• A true friend is the best possession.
• Well done is better than well said.
• What is more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than diamonds? Virtue.
• Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
• Wish not so much to live long as to live well.