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Zitate/Quotes by Benjamin Franklin 121-160
121 Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
122 Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
123 Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
124 He that’s secure is not safe.
125 If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
126 It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
127 Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
128 The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
129 The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
130 There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
131 To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
132 Well done is better than well said.
133 There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
134 Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
135 Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
136 To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
137 We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
138 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
139 When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
140 When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
141 Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
142 There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
143 The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
144 The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
145 The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
146 Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
147 Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
148 Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
149 If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
150 If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
151 I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
152 Diligence is the mother of good luck.
153 Employ the time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
154 Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
155 He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
156 The U.S. Constitutions doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
157 The discontented man finds no easy chair.
158 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.
159 Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
160 Our necessities never equal our wants.
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