Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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401. “Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.”

— Benjamin Franklin

402. “If you want a thing done – go. If not – send.”

— Benjamin Franklin

403. “Better slip with foot than tongue.”

— Benjamin Franklin

404. “Great talkers, little doers.”

— Benjamin Franklin

405. “The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.”

— Benjamin Franklin

406. “The best doctor gives the least medicines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

409. “The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

411. “Hunger never saw bad bread.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

415. “Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great.”

— Benjamin Franklin

416. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

418. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

420. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

423. “The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

429. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

433. “I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

436. “Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

440. “Life is a kind of chess.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

443. “Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

447. “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin