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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
Source: Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
Source: The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth
“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: The select works of Benjamin Franklin
Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Source: The Real Benjamin Franklin
Source: The autobiography of Benj. Franklin: Published verbatim from the original manuscript by his grandson Will. Temple Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks
“He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes
“Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
Source: New Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. By Benjamin Franklin Esq., and communicated in several letters to Peter Collinson, Esq. Part 1. The third edition
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: The select works of Benjamin Franklin
“Men and Melons are hard to know.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.”
“None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”
“A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack