Inspirational Quotations by Benjamin Franklin

  • When friends are in trouble, don't bother them
    by asking if there is anything you can do.
    Think of something appropriate and do it.
    From Issue 5
  • If you do not want to be forgotten,
    When you are dead and rotting,
    Either write things worth reading,
    Or do things worth the writing.
    From Issue 74
  • Well done is better than well said.
    From Issue 115
  • Lost time is never found again.
    From Issue 123
  • Remember that time is money.
    From Issue 165
  • To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
    From Issue 211
  • What you seem to be, be really.
    From Issue 236
  • Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
    From Issue 241
  • Speak little, do much.
    From Issue 277
  • Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
    From Issue 301
  • Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    From Issue 311
  • Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
    From Issue 313
  • The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
    Topic: Hypocrisy
    From Issue 327
  • He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
    Topic: Honor
    From Issue 344

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