Benjamin Franklin Good Quotations

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

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.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

There is no good war or bad peace

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

whatever you become be good at it

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Three good meals a day is bad living.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will

He that can travel well afoot, keeps a good horse

Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.

Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands

Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Do well by doing good.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of...

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.

Dewey felt that since ideals are not perfectly attainable, they may demoralize students who try to measure up to them. The general tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public spirit, fortitude, etc.

Astrologers say, This is a good Day, To make Love in May.

There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

There never was a good war nor a bad peace.

Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that's aground knows where the shoal doth lie

A good Wife & Health, is a Man's best Wealth.

The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes.

If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.