Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”

— Benjamin Franklin

102. “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

— Benjamin Franklin

103. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin

104. “I am what I am and that’s all that I am and if I’m supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?”

— Benjamin Franklin

105. “Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.”

— Benjamin Franklin

106. “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

— Benjamin Franklin

107. “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.”

— Benjamin Franklin

108. “When in doubt, don’t.”

— Benjamin Franklin

109. “If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

— Benjamin Franklin

110. “Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

— Benjamin Franklin

111. “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

— Benjamin Franklin

112. “Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.”

— Benjamin Franklin

113. “It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

114. “The only certain things in life are death and taxes!”

— Benjamin Franklin

115. “The best of all medicines is resting and fasting.”

— Benjamin Franklin

116. “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

117. “An education is the investment with the greatest returns.”

— Benjamin Franklin

118. “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”

— Benjamin Franklin

119. “By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.”

— Benjamin Franklin

120. “Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.”

— Benjamin Franklin

121. “A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”

— Benjamin Franklin

122. “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

123. “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”

— Benjamin Franklin

124. “I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

125. “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”

— Benjamin Franklin

126. “In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

127. “Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

— Benjamin Franklin

128. “My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

— Benjamin Franklin

129. “God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it’s easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

130. “Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.”

— Benjamin Franklin

131. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

— Benjamin Franklin

132. “Speak little, do much.”

— Benjamin Franklin

133. “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

134. “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”

— Benjamin Franklin

135. “The early morning has gold in its mouth.”

— Benjamin Franklin

136. “Constant dropping wears away stones.”

— Benjamin Franklin

137. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”

— Benjamin Franklin

138. “Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”

— Benjamin Franklin

139. “Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.”

— Benjamin Franklin

140. “Anyone can complain, and they should have the right to, but if you want to see change you must act. Actions speak louder than words. Don’t complain about things, change things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

141. “Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.”

— Benjamin Franklin

142. “For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”

— Benjamin Franklin

143. “Where liberty is, there is my country.”

— Benjamin Franklin

144. “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”

— Benjamin Franklin

145. “We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.”

— Benjamin Franklin

146. “What I am to be, I am now becoming.”

— Benjamin Franklin

147. “Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.”

— Benjamin Franklin

148. “Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”

— Benjamin Franklin

149. “If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.”

— Benjamin Franklin

150. “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.”

— Benjamin Franklin