Home Quotes Benjamin Franklin: Zitate/Quotes



1-40 | 41-80 | 81-120 | 121-160



Zitate/Quotes by Benjamin Franklin 1-40

 

1  Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

2  Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

3  Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

4  A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

5  Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

6  He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

7  Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

8  Rather go to bed with our dinner than to rise in debt.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

9  Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

10  In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

11  How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

12  He that rises late must trot all day.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

13  Fatigue is the best pillow.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

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

15  Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

16  A penny saved is a penny earned.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

17  He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

18  Remember that credit is money.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

19  The doors of wisdom are never shut.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

20  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

21  Time is money.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

22  Wars are not paid for in wartime, that bill comes later.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

23  Where liberty is, there is my country.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

24  When in doubt, don’t.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

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

26  There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

27  The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

28  The first mistake in public business is going into it.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

29  If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

30  He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

31  Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

32  Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

33  Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

34  Creditors have better memories than debtors.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

35  By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

36  Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

37  A small leak can sink a great ship.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

38  Applause waits on success.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

39  Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expenses is constant and certain; and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

40  Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed if it, is.
   [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]

Page 1 / 4

Quotes Overview