Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin
