Franklin, Benjamin Archives - World Quotations

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Autobiography

That which resembles most living one’s life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in …

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Conflict

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Deception

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Example

Nothing preaches better than the act.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Food and Eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Habit

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Ignorance

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Learning

The things which hurt, instruct.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Marriage

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Opportunity

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Prayer