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Your Quotes for 17 January 2006 - Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born at Boston on this day in 1709. At various times he was a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, an economist, and a flyer of kites. The challenge with Franklin is that I like most of the 115 quotes in the database.

Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
     - All from Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

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