Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Benjamin Franklin was a person who was truly multifaceted and multitalented in more than one way. He had many major inventions to his credit. Apart from being a scientist, this gifted personality was also a leading author, politician, statesman and even a political theorist. His words of wisdom reflect his style of thinking. These quotes will give you an insight into his way of thinking.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Fish and visitors stink after three days.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.