Random quote

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Quotations of selected author

Benjamin Franklin

1706-1790. American inventor, philosopher, diplomat and statesman. Inventor of lightning-rod.


1. "You may delay, but Time will not."

Categories: Time and Passing


2. "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Categories: Richness and Money


3. "Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers."

Categories: Loyalty and Betrayal


4. "To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."

Categories: Defeates and Mistakes


5. "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

Categories: Various


6. "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

Categories: Authority, Government -:- Law and Crime


7. "Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."

Categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity


8. "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires."

Categories: Health and Alcohol


9. "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."

Categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love


10. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Categories: Egoism


11. "Half the Truth is often a great Lie."

Categories: Truth and Falsity


12. "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee."

Categories: Health and Alcohol


13. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Categories: Talent and Genius -:- Education


14. "Death takes no bribes."

Categories: Life and Death


15. "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."

Categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age


16. "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

Categories: Anger