Franklin, Benjamin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Well done is better than well said.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Beauty and folly are old companions.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
- Franklin, Benjamin
[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Franklin, Benjamin
One today is worth two tomorrows.
- Franklin, Benjamin
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Franklin, Benjamin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Franklin, Benjamin
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
- Franklin, Benjamin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- Franklin, Benjamin
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Franklin, Benjamin
