Benjamin Franklin Quotes

1. Haste makes waste. – Benjamin Franklin

2. Love, and be loved. – Benjamin Franklin

3. Fools multiply folly. – Benjamin Franklin

4. Speak little, do much. – Benjamin Franklin

5. No gains without pains. – Benjamin Franklin

6. Hunger is the best pickle. – Benjamin Franklin

7. Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin

8. Hunger never saw bad bread. – Benjamin Franklin

9. He that’s secure is not safe. – Benjamin Franklin

10. Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin

11. The things which hurt, instruct. – Benjamin Franklin

12. Fish & visitors stink in 3 days. – Benjamin Franklin

13. The Proud hate Pride — in others. – Benjamin Franklin

14. Better slip with foot than tongue. – Benjamin Franklin

15. Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

16. God helps those who help themselves. – Benjamin Franklin

17. Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. – Benjamin Franklin

18. An empty bag will not stand upright. – Benjamin Franklin

19. Necessity never made a good bargain. – Benjamin Franklin

20. Half the Truth is often a great Lie. – Benjamin Franklin

21. Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin

22. Where liberty is, there is my country. – Benjamin Franklin

23. He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting. – Benjamin Franklin

24. Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame. – Benjamin Franklin

25. A quarrelsome Man has no good Neighbors. – Benjamin Franklin

26. Do not do what you would not have known. – Benjamin Franklin

27. Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise. – Benjamin Franklin

28. Humility makes great men twice honourable. – Benjamin Franklin

29. He’s a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom. – Benjamin Franklin

30. He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot. – Benjamin Franklin

31. The Sting of a Reproach, is the Truth of it. – Benjamin Franklin

32. Approve not of him who commends all you say. – Benjamin Franklin

33. There are lazy Minds as well as lazy Bodies. – Benjamin Franklin

34. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. – Benjamin Franklin

35. Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else. – Benjamin Franklin

36. Have you somewhat to do tomorrow; do it today. – Benjamin Franklin

37. Wish not so much to live long as to live well. – Benjamin Franklin

38. A Temper to bear much, will have much to bear. – Benjamin Franklin

39. Distrust & caution are the parents of security. – Benjamin Franklin

40. They that won’t be counselled, can’t be helped. – Benjamin Franklin

41. When the Well’s dry, we know the Worth of Water. – Benjamin Franklin

42. Be slow in choosing a Friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin

43. Distrust and caution are the parents of security. – Benjamin Franklin

44. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin

45. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. – Benjamin Franklin

46. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

47. Pay what you owe, and you’ll know what’s your own. – Benjamin Franklin

48. Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad Habits. – Benjamin Franklin

49. Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them. – Benjamin Franklin

50. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. – Benjamin Franklin

51. Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. – Benjamin Franklin

52. If you desire many things, many things will seem few. – Benjamin Franklin

53. If you’d know the Value of Money, go and borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin

54. Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason. – Benjamin Franklin

55. When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself. – Benjamin Franklin

56. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. – Benjamin Franklin

57. He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. – Benjamin Franklin

58. To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. – Benjamin Franklin

59. He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither. – Benjamin Franklin

60. Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices. – Benjamin Franklin

61. Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge. – Benjamin Franklin

62. Better is a little with content than much with contention. – Benjamin Franklin

63. Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. – Benjamin Franklin

64. By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. – Benjamin Franklin

65. If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering. – Benjamin Franklin

66. If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. – Benjamin Franklin

67. The Wolf sheds his Coat once a Year, his Disposition never. – Benjamin Franklin

68. Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One. – Benjamin Franklin

69. The noblest question in the world is, What Good may I do in it? – Benjamin Franklin

70. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. – Benjamin Franklin

71. An ounce of wit that is bought, is worth a pound that is taught. – Benjamin Franklin

72. He that’s content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much. – Benjamin Franklin

73. A great Talker may be no Fool, but he is one that relies on him. – Benjamin Franklin

74. If Man could have Half his Wishes, he would double his Troubles. – Benjamin Franklin

75. You may give a Man an Office, but you cannot give him Discretion. – Benjamin Franklin

76. He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. – Benjamin Franklin

77. Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things. – Benjamin Franklin

78. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

79. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Benjamin Franklin

80. Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please. – Benjamin Franklin

81. What signifies your Patience, if you can’t find it when you want it. – Benjamin Franklin

82. A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. – Benjamin Franklin

83. They who have nothing to be troubled at, will be troubled at nothing. – Benjamin Franklin

84. I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. – Benjamin Franklin

85. The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one. – Benjamin Franklin

86. Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. – Benjamin Franklin

87. To-morrow, every fault is to be amended; but that To-morrow never comes. – Benjamin Franklin

88. Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man,|discourse a clear Man. – Benjamin Franklin

89. It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

90. Work as if you were to live 100 years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow. – Benjamin Franklin

91. Tell me my Faults, and mend your own. Men take more pains to mask than mend. – Benjamin Franklin

92. Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. – Benjamin Franklin

93. Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin

94. The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence. – Benjamin Franklin

95. Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst. – Benjamin Franklin

96. Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; And you shall have Corn, to sell and to keep. – Benjamin Franklin

97. Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. – Benjamin Franklin

98. Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then shou’d they become acquainted. – Benjamin Franklin

99. We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin

100. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin