Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”

— Benjamin Franklin

52. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

53. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

— Benjamin Franklin

54. “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.”

— Benjamin Franklin

55. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

— Benjamin Franklin

56. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

57. “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

58. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

— Benjamin Franklin

59. “Little strokes fell great oaks.”

— Benjamin Franklin

60. “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

— Benjamin Franklin

61. “One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

62. “Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.”

— Benjamin Franklin

63. “If you want something done, ask a busy person.”

— Benjamin Franklin

64. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

— Benjamin Franklin

65. “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

66. “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

— Benjamin Franklin

67. “You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.”

— Benjamin Franklin

68. “Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

69. “A friend in need is a friend indeed!”

— Benjamin Franklin

70. “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

71. “Doing your best means never stopping trying.”

— Benjamin Franklin

72. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?”

— Benjamin Franklin

73. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.”

— Benjamin Franklin

74. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

— Benjamin Franklin

75. “A place for everything, everything in its place.”

— Benjamin Franklin

76. “Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.”

— Benjamin Franklin

77. “Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

78. “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”

— Benjamin Franklin

79. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

— Benjamin Franklin

80. “There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.”

— Benjamin Franklin

81. “No gains without pains.”

— Benjamin Franklin

82. “While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”

— Benjamin Franklin

83. “To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”

— Benjamin Franklin

84. “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

85. “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”

— Benjamin Franklin

86. “Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.”

— Benjamin Franklin

87. “Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

88. “There are three types of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don’t get it, or don’t want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.”

— Benjamin Franklin

89. “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

90. “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

91. “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”

— Benjamin Franklin

92. “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

— Benjamin Franklin

93. “Humility makes great men twice honorable.”

— Benjamin Franklin

94. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

— Benjamin Franklin

95. “Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”

— Benjamin Franklin

96. “The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”

— Benjamin Franklin

97. “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

98. “There was never a bad peace or a good war.”

— Benjamin Franklin

99. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

100. “The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.”

— Benjamin Franklin