Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Lying

• A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Running, Lying, Debt Free

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Half the truth is often a great lie.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Truth, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

• Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Wine, Games

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

• Lying rides upon debt's back.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Debt, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

• Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Animal, Bugs

  Letter to Georgiana Shipley, 26 Sept. 1772.

• The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tombstone, Lying, Book

• Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Lust, Deceit

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Thinking, Growing

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.301

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