We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Advice Quotes

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. Whats a sundial in the shade?

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. Whats a sundial in the shade?

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty,...

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty,...

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who...

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who...

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take...

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take...

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Death takes no bribes.

Death takes no bribes.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Read much, but not many books.

Read much, but not many books.

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings...

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...