Explore more quotes by Benjamin Franklin

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

Learning, Business, Wisdom, Execution, Projects

"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."

Learning, Being, Mind, Old

"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."

Learning, Sense

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

Learning, Age, Judgment, Will, Wit

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

Finance, Government, People, Dishonesty

"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Wisdom, People, Blind, Clothes, Eye

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

Peace, May

"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."

Integrity, Man

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Family, Pleasure, Sorrow

"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."

Adversity, Reason

Exlpore more Patience quotes

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Patience,

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Patience, Disappointment, Quiet, Will

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Patience, First, Will, President

"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."

Ruth Rendell, British Writer

Patience, Death, Day

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Patience, Hope, Will

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

John Quincy Adams, American President

Patience, Perseverance, Difficulties, Effect, Obstacles

"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Patience, Planning, Revenge, Worth

"Beware the wrath of a patient adversary."

John C. Calhoun, American Statesman

Patience, Wrath

"Patience is sorrow's salve."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

Patience, Sorrow

"Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."

James J. Corbett, American Athlete

Patience, Skill