Benjamin Franklin Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”

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

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”

“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

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

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”

“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”

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