Quotes by Franklin, Benjamin

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessi >>

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the >>

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medic >>

Quotations about Mistakes

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, yo >>

Mistakes are stepping stones to success. >>

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmode >>

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin