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May you find great value in these Franklin quotes and sayings.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The school is the last expenditure upon which America
should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish
there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
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