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Letter "B" » Benjamin Franklin Quotes
«Look before, or you'll find yourself behind»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Future
«They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
deserve, Give Me Liberty, obtain, safety, temporary
«When the well is dry, they know the worth of water»
«Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Mankind,
Men and Women,
Religion
| Keywords:
Great A, sexes
«Humility makes great men twice honorable»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
honorable, humility
«Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
cunning, silly
«No gains without pains.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
gains, pains
«Lighthouses are more helpful than churches»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
churches, helpful, lighthouse, lighthouses, The Lighthouse
«Where liberty is, there is my country»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
country, liberty, My Country
«Creditors have better memories than debtors.»
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