Benjamin Franklin was a hero of Colonial America and remains the most famously multi-talented figure in the nation's history. His accomplishments are too varied to sum up easily; they include signing the Declaration of Independence and publishing the famous Poor Richard's Almanack.

Quotations by Benjamin Franklin :

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. 

Creditors have better memories than debtors. 

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. 

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. 

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. 

A penny saved is a penny earned. 

A place for everything, everything in its place. 

A small leak can sink a great ship. 

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. 

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. 

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. 

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. 

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. 

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. 

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. 

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security. 

Applause waits on success. 

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. 

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

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. 

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. 

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. 

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. 

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. 

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security. 

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. 

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. 

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. 

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. 

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. 

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. 

Energy and persistence conquer all things. 

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. 

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. 

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. 

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. 

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. 

God helps those who help themselves. 

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. 

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. 

He that can have patience can have what he will. 

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. 

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. 

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. 

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. 

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. 

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. 

He that speaks much, is much mistaken. 

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. 

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. 

He that's secure is not safe. 

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. 

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. 

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. 

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. 

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

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. 

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. 

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. 

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. 

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. 

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. 

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

If you desire many things, many things will seem few. 

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. 

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. 

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. 

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. 

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. 

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

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. 

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

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

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. 

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. 

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. 

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. 

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"Children need love especially when they don't deserve it."  *--Harold S. Hulbert

"Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon." 
*-- James L. Fisher 

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
*-- Confucius

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