A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. -- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. -- Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut. -- Benjamin Franklin
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. -- Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind. -- Benjamin Franklin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -- Benjamin Franklin
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. -- Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. -- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. -- Benjamin Franklin
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. -- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned. -- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. -- Benjamin Franklin
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. -- Benjamin Franklin
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. -- Benjamin FranklinAll mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. -- Benjamin Franklin
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. -- Benjamin Franklin
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. -- Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. -- Benjamin Franklin
He that won't be counseled can't be helped. -- Benjamin Franklin
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. -- Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. -- Benjamin Franklin
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. -- Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. -- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. -- Benjamin Franklin
He that can have patience can have what he will. -- Benjamin Franklin
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you desire many things, many things will seem few. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. -- Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. -- 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
