Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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401. “A little neglect may breed great mischief.”

— Benjamin Franklin

402. “To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”

— Benjamin Franklin

403. “Hunger never saw bad bread.”

— Benjamin Franklin

404. “Order – Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”

— Benjamin Franklin

405. “If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

406. “Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.”

— Benjamin Franklin

407. “Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.”

— Benjamin Franklin

408. “Better slip with foot than tongue.”

— Benjamin Franklin

409. “A word to the wise is enough, and many words won’t fill a bushel.”

— Benjamin Franklin

410. “Great talkers, little doers.”

— Benjamin Franklin

411. “A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”

— Benjamin Franklin

412. “There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

413. “Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”

— Benjamin Franklin

414. “The way to be safe is never to be secure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

415. “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

416. “Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.”

— Benjamin Franklin

417. “It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”

— Benjamin Franklin

418. “He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”

— Benjamin Franklin

419. “To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.”

— Benjamin Franklin

420. “La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.”

— Benjamin Franklin

421. “Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”

— Benjamin Franklin

422. “He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

423. “There is no good war or bad peace.”

— Benjamin Franklin

424. “The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

425. “Half a truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

426. “Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.”

— Benjamin Franklin

427. “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

— Benjamin Franklin

428. “Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.”

— Benjamin Franklin

429. “Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”

— Benjamin Franklin

430. “Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”

— Benjamin Franklin

431. “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”

— Benjamin Franklin

432. “The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast.”

— Benjamin Franklin

433. “A father’s a treasure; a brother’s a comfort; a friend is both.”

— Benjamin Franklin

434. “A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”

— Benjamin Franklin

435. “Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind’s misery.”

— Benjamin Franklin

436. “I am lord of myself, accountable to none.”

— Benjamin Franklin

437. “And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

— Benjamin Franklin

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438. “Keep conscience clear, then never fear.”

— Benjamin Franklin

439. “The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.”

— Benjamin Franklin

440. “I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.”

— Benjamin Franklin

441. “If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”

— Benjamin Franklin

442. “Hope of gain lessens pain.”

— Benjamin Franklin

443. “Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.”

— Benjamin Franklin

444. “Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

445. “There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

446. “The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”

— Benjamin Franklin

447. “Death takes no bribes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

448. “O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.”

— Benjamin Franklin

449. “Without justice, courage is weak.”

— Benjamin Franklin

450. “Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.”

— Benjamin Franklin