Benjamin Franklin Small Quotations

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay great ones - with ingratitude

Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies, Great ones break thro' before your eyes

Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.

Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.

A small leak can sink a great ship.

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.