Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Benjamin Franklin Quotes that I love :

1. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

2. He that is of opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

4. He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

5. Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

6. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

7. He that can have patience can have what he will.

8. Take it from poor Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame.

10. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

11. Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

12. Employ thy time well, if thou meanst to get leisure.