Selected quotes by

Franklin Benjamin

1706 - 1790 (84)

Franklin Benjamin
20 quotes
Quote 1

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

Quote 2

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Quote 3

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

Quote 4

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Quote 5

You may delay, but time will not.

Quote 6

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

Quote 7

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

Quote 8

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Quote 9

Lost time is never found again.

Quote 10

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Quote 11

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Quote 12

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Quote 13

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

Quote 14

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

Quote 15

Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?”

Quote 16

Well done is better than well said.”

Quote 17

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

Quote 18

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Quote 19

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Quote 20

He that can have patience can have what he will.-“Honesty is the best policy.