Benjamin Franklin Man Quotations

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.

There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.

To the discontented man no chair is easy

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue

Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.

Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

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

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.

A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor.

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

A man is not completely born until he be dead.

A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

If man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles

He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.

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.

For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent.

The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing

The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts his Sight: What stranger wonders does he write?

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart