Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Well done is better than well said.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.