Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The English love an insult. It’s their only test of a man’s sincerity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

454. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

458. “Laws without morals are in vain.”

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

462. “Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

467. “Innocence is its own defense.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

473. “As Pride increases, Fortune declines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

477. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

483. “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

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. “Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

496. “I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

499. “So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”

— Benjamin Franklin

500. “God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”

— Benjamin Franklin