Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Death was far more certain than God.

Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

The only certainty is death.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged?

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.

All things human change.