Showing posts with label historic quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historic quotes. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Honesty is the best policy.

Well done is better than well said.

Lost time is never found again.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.