Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin More Quotes by Benjamin Franklin More Quotes From Benjamin Franklin If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! Benjamin Franklin planningmind-blowinginspirational To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day. Benjamin Franklin ignorancecountrypeople Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. Benjamin Franklin mortalsuniversethee What I am to be, I am now becoming. Benjamin Franklin becoming It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin improvementinspirationallife Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. Benjamin Franklin dollarscarewatches In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin moneybusinessdeath The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution. Benjamin Franklin kingsordinarymen An investment in education always pays the highest returns. Benjamin Franklin investmentreturnpay If you want to be loved, love and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin marriageifswant Forewarn'd, forearm'd. Benjamin Franklin caution Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away Benjamin Franklin laughterhumorfunny A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. Benjamin Franklin weedscienceknowledge If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Benjamin Franklin purposetimelittles Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin motivationalpositiveinspirational Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. Benjamin Franklin sacrificelibertyfreedom And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them? Benjamin Franklin cloudsmencountry Where liberty is, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin 4th-of-julyfreedomcountry He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. Benjamin Franklin extravaganceyears Let each new year find you a better person. Benjamin Franklin old-yearnew-yearyears
