Benjamin Franklin

(113 votes)   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
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(111 votes)   You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

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

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(107 votes)   I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

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

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(107 votes)   I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

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

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(107 votes)   Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

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

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(102 votes)   Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.

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

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

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

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(101 votes)   Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

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

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(99 votes)   He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

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

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(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

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(90 votes)   Love well, whip well.

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

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(89 votes)   Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

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

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(88 votes)   Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

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

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(87 votes)   The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

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

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(86 votes)   All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

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

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