Franklin, Benjamin Archives - World Quotations

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Absence

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Change

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

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

Critics and Criticism

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

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Enemies

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Family

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Gratitude

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Idleness

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Law and Lawyers

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

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

Love

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

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Necessity

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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

Pleasure