Benjamin Franklin

Profession
Politician
Date of birth
January 17, 1706
Date of death
1790.04.17

Sayings and Quotes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Education Best Knowledge Investment
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Success Achievement Growth Progress
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
Motivational You Prepare Fail
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Motivational Better Well Done Done
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom Freedom Thought Speech
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Good Lose Bad Reputation
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Finance Great Ship Small
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom Knowledge Temple Ignorance
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Safety Deserve Liberty Temporary
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
Good Finance World Bad
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Funny God Happy Wine
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness Yourself You Constitution
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
You Jump Succeed Opportunities
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Good Best I Am Think
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
Self Know Hard Three
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin
Fish Three Smell Like
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
God Man Lawyer Now
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Dead Three Secret Two
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Time You Will Delay

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The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
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Knowledge You Realize Everything
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
Malala Yousafzai
Education People World Know
One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.
Kerry Washington
Best Boss Job Amazing
Surely it was the best decision of my career to sign for Juventus.
Andrea Pirlo
Best Decision Career Sign
I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
Chris Jordan
Knowledge Hate Ideas Secrets
Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
Jeremy Corbyn
Education Health Face Looking
The first time I ever actually had a line was on 'A Different World', my best friend Cree Summer's show. I was in L.A. visiting her, and she said, 'Hey, there's a walk-on part, why don't you audition for it?'
Tamara Taylor
Best Time You World
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
Henry Louis Gates
Best You Black People
A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
Alicia Machado
Education Home Culture Man
When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we're about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I'm in love when it comes down to the headphones I'm promoting.
DJ Khaled
Love Best People Down