Benjamin Franklin1706–1790The quotations of
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman
1706–1790
98 quotes, most often on Money, Success and Work. Part of the Founding Fathers and Scientists collections.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Poor Richard’s Almanack- Poor Richard’s Almanack
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
- Speech in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (September 17, 1787); reported in James Madison, Journal of the Federal Convention, ed. E. H. Scott (1893), p. 741
- Ben Franklin, as quoted in Exercises in English Grammar (1909) by M. A. Morse.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Poor Richard’s AlmanackIf a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Ben Franklin, as quoted in Exercises in English Grammar (1909) by M. A. Morse.He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
