Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Selective quotes of Benjamin Franklin


By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Honesty is the best policy.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Well done is better than well said.

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