Top 221 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.