Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”

“Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”

“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting”

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable”

“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they dont want to discourage it completely.”

“Clean your finger before you point at my spots”

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security”

“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest”

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. Whats a sundial in the shade?”

“Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away”

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

Many people die at twenty five and arent buried until they are seventy five.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.]

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

I didnt fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.