Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

“When you are finished changing, you're finished.”

“To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”

“When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”

“In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these: 1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable. 2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman. 3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience. 4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes. 5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement. 6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy. 7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy. 8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!”

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away”

“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”

“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.”