Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Success has ruined many a man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

452. “When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.”

— Benjamin Franklin

453. “Love well, whip well.”

— Benjamin Franklin

454. “A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.”

— Benjamin Franklin

455. “Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

456. “He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.”

— Benjamin Franklin

457. “If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!”

— Benjamin Franklin

458. “Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”

— Benjamin Franklin

459. “Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

— Benjamin Franklin

460. “You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.”

— Benjamin Franklin

461. “Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.”

— Benjamin Franklin

462. “Laws without morals are in vain.”

— Benjamin Franklin

463. “The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

464. “In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.”

— Benjamin Franklin

465. “The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.”

— Benjamin Franklin

466. “Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.”

— Benjamin Franklin

467. “One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”

— Benjamin Franklin

468. “I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

469. “Innocence is its own defense.”

— Benjamin Franklin

470. “Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.”

— Benjamin Franklin

471. “A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.”

— Benjamin Franklin

472. “No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

473. “Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

— Benjamin Franklin

474. “Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.”

— Benjamin Franklin

475. “As Pride increases, Fortune declines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

476. “A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”

— Benjamin Franklin

477. “After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

478. “Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.”

— Benjamin Franklin

479. “To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”

— Benjamin Franklin

480. “Never spare the parson’s wine nor the baker’s pudding.”

— Benjamin Franklin

481. “No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.”

— Benjamin Franklin

482. “The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.”

— Benjamin Franklin

483. “A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”

— Benjamin Franklin

484. “Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”

— Benjamin Franklin

485. “Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man’s purse. 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

486. “At a great pennyworth pause a while.”

— Benjamin Franklin

487. “No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.”

— Benjamin Franklin

488. “As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”

— Benjamin Franklin

489. “Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”

— Benjamin Franklin

490. “God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.”

— Benjamin Franklin

491. “If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.”

— Benjamin Franklin

492. “None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”

— Benjamin Franklin

493. “Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”

— Benjamin Franklin

494. “Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

— Benjamin Franklin

495. “Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?”

— Benjamin Franklin

496. “A light purse is a heavy curse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

497. “No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.”

— Benjamin Franklin

498. “Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

499. “Half-wits talk much, but say little.”

— Benjamin Franklin

500. “Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.”

— Benjamin Franklin