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Danh ngôn của Benjamin Franklin (Sứ mệnh: 9)

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Time is money.
You may delay, but time will not.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Well done is better than well said.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Lost time is never found again.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Hunger is the best pickle.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
When in doubt, don't.
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.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Beware the hobby that eats.
Remember that credit is money.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Honesty is the best policy.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Observe all men, thyself most.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Applause waits on success.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
God helps those who help themselves.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.