Benjamin Franklin

(97 votes)   A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(80 votes)   A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(33 votes)   A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(27 votes)   A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(34 votes)   A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(32 votes)   A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(29 votes)   A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(26 votes)   A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(148 votes)   A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(35 votes)   A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(38 votes)   A penny saved is a penny earned.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(30 votes)   A place for everything, everything in its place.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(118 votes)   A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(45 votes)   A small leak can sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin
American, Politician Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(101 votes)   A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website