Benjamin Franklin

“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.”

“The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.”

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”

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

“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”

“THE BODYofBENJAMIN FRANKLINPrinterlike the cover of an old book,its contents torn out,and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms;Yet the work itself shall not be lost,For it will (as he believed) appear once more,in a new,and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR”

“My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. ”

“Вярвай в себе си и никой друг няма да те предаде.”

“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”

“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”

“Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?”

“Ou escreva algo que valha a pena ler, ou faça algo que valha a pena escrever.”

“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hearmuch; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of ourfriends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as muchas possibly we can; to hearken.”

“To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly”

“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”

“Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.”

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. ”

“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Poor Richard”

“He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.”

“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon”

“Do good to your friends to keep them,to your enemies to win them.”

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

“Eat to live, don't live to eat.”

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”

“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”

“To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”

“The discontented man finds no easy chair.”

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”

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

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”

“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”