Benjamin Franklin World Quotations

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!

The world is run by the people who show up.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.