Tuesday 15 September 2015

41 HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

41 QUOTES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.....

1. To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

2. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

4. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

5. A small leak can sink a great ship.

6. Trouble springs from idleness and grievious toil from needless ease.

7. Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

9. The things which hurt, instruct.

10. He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

11. Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

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

13. The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

14. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

15. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.

16. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

17. Many a man thinks he is buying  pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

18. Energy and persistence alter all things.

19. Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones.

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

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

22. He that can have patience can have what he will.

23. A penny saved is a penny earned.

24. You may delay, but time will not.

25. In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.

26. Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

27. Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

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

29. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

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

31. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

32. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

33. By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

34. How many observe Christ's birthday!
      How few, His percepts!

35. Hide not your talents, they for use were made, what's a sundial in the shade?

36. Well done is better than well said.

37. Lost time is never found again.

38. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

39. It is the first responsibility for every citizen to question authority. 

40. If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

41. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.



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