9 Posts found for Author: Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subject: Personal Improvement

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they are 75.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subject: Life & Society

Either write something worth reading about, or do something worth writing about.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Thinking aloud is a habit responsible for much of mankind’s misery.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Thought | Inquiry, Wisdom

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

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

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subject: Perception | Observation

I would rather have it said ‘He lived usefully,’ than ‘He died rich’.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Material Possessions

America is a place where people do not enquire of a stranger, What is he? But, What can he do?

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Culture, International