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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Benjamin Franklin

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin Franklin

A fat kitchen, a lean will.
Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

A little neglect may breed mischief . . . for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
Benjamin Franklin

A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin

A man is not completely born until he be dead.
Benjamin Franklin

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.
Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship
Benjamin Franklin

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Benjamin Franklin

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

An old young man, will be a young old man.
Benjamin Franklin

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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