Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character… like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy… the turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native […]

The early bird gets the worm

So much for that letter; to which I may now add, that there are several things in the Old Testament impossible to be given by divine inspiration; such as the approbation ascribed to the angel of the Lord of that abominably wicked and detestable action of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. If the […]

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.