Benjamin Franklin

(born 1706; died 1790)

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. [Select]

{Category: Wealth and Poverty}

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. [Select]

{Category: Life and Death}

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. [Select]

{Categories: Success and Failure, Work and Recreation}

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. [Select]

{Category: Life and Death}

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. [Select]

{Categories: Life and Death, Wealth and Poverty}

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [Select]

{Categories: Law and Politics, War and Peace}

Well done is better than well said. [Select]

{Category: Work and Recreation}

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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