Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Benjamin Franklin was a visionary founding father, inventor, and thinker whose ideas shaped the early United States. His quotes reflect a blend of wit, wisdom, and practical guidance on life, learning, and moral character. Together, they offer timeless insights that continue to inspire curiosity, integrity, and personal growth.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....
From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
From Poor Richard's Almanack
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....
From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
From Poor Richard's Almanack
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....
From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
From Poor Richard's Almanack
