Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Writing Quotes

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Death takes no bribes.

Death takes no bribes.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave

There will be sleeping enough in the grave

The Family of Fools is ancient

The Family of Fools is ancient

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her...

Never take a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her...

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the...

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the...

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to...

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to...

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were...

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were...

One today is worth two tomorrows.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more...

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more...

In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity.

In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always...

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always...