Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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