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Zitate/Quotes by Benjamin Franklin 81-120
81 Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
82 Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
83 To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
84 Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
85 Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
86 He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
87 Hunger is the best pickle.
88 At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
89 If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
90 Be slow in choosing a fried, slower in changing.
91 Half a truth is often a great lie.
92 Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
93 I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
94 He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
95 All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds is in partnership in the serious of the world.
96 Life’s tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise to late.
97 Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
98 Honesty is the best policy.
99 If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
100 In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
101 Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
102 Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
103 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.
104 One day is worth two tomorrows.
105 It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
106 Necessity never made a good bargain.
107 I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
108 Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
109 He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
110 If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
111 They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
112 All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
113 An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
114 If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
115 He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
116 It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
117 There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
118 The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
119 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.
120 As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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