Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Some people die at 25 and arent buried until 75.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The U. S. Constitution doesnt guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

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.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour ones temper and disturb ones quiet.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.