115 Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Benjamin Franklin was an American publisher, inventor, scientist and diplomat (1706-1790). Here are the famous Benjamin Franklin quotes to inspire you.
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A new truth is a truth; an old error is an error.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A fat kitchen makes a lean will.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.” – Benjamin Franklin
Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- “God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “This is sometimes of great use.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Eat to live, and not live to eat.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “An old young man will be a young old man.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “It is a common error in friends, when they would extol their friends, to make comparisons, and to depreciate the merits of others.” – Benjamin Franklin
Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “No gains without pains.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “God helps them who help themselves.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him.” – Benjamin Franklin
Inspiring Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “Having been poor is no shame, being ashamed of it is.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “One today is worth two tomorrows.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” – Benjamin Franklin
Motivational Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The most trifling actions of a man, in my opinion, as well as the smallest features and lineaments of the face give a nice observer some notion of his mind.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.” – Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Short Quotes
- “Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Employ your time well, if you mean to get leisure.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A right Heart exceeds all.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “What you seem to be, be really.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A true Friend is the best Possession.” – Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Creditors have better memories than debtors.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?” – Benjamin Franklin
- “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “No nation was ever ruined by trade.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Where liberty is, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Quotes
- “To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Necessity never made a good bargain.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The way to be safe, is never to be secure.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Those that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Better slip with foot than tongue.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.” – Benjamin Franklin
More Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “Haste makes Waste.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Security without liberty is called prison.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.” – Benjamin Franklin
