Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.


Billy Boy Franklin

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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Ladies, your power can influence for right or wrong, for victory or defeat. Remember, people have a ...
JENTEZEN FRANKLIN
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN