Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Founding Fathers of the United States. Author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
– Benjamin Franklin

The best doctor gives the least medicines.
– Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
– Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
– Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
– Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
– Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
– Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
– Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
– Benjamin Franklin

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.
– Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.
– Benjamin Franklin

Fish and visitors smell in three days.
– Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
– Benjamin Franklin

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
– Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non- performance will turn them into enemies.
– Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
– Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
-Benjamin Franklin

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
– Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.
– Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
– Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
– Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison.
– Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.
– Benjamin Franklin

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
– Benjamin Franklin

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
– Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.
– Benjamin Franklin

Remember that time is money.
– Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
– Benjamin Franklin

I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.
– Benjamin Franklin

Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.
– Benjamin Franklin

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
– Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
– Benjamin Franklin

A countryman between two lawyers is just like a fish between two cats.
– Benjamin Franklin

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
– Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
– Benjamin Franklin

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
– Benjamin Franklin

The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.
– Benjamin Franklin

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
– Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
– Benjamin Franklin

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
– Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.
– Benjamin Franklin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
– Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
– Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
– Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes fell great oaks.
– Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse motion with action.
– Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
– Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
– Benjamin Franklin

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
– Benjamin Franklin

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
– Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as than being unwilling to learn.
– Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
– Benjamin Franklin

He that cannot obey, cannot command.
– Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
– Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
– Benjamin Franklin

Observe all men; thy self most.
– Benjamin Franklin

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