Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

— Benjamin Franklin

252. “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

— Benjamin Franklin

253. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

— Benjamin Franklin

254. “Stand firm, don’t flutter!”

— Benjamin Franklin

255. “I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.”

— Benjamin Franklin

256. “One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.”

— Benjamin Franklin

257. “I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God governs in the affairs of men.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

259. “Without justice, courage is weak.”

— Benjamin Franklin

260. “He’s the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

261. “Love your Neighbour; yet don’t pull down your Hedge.”

— Benjamin Franklin

262. “Death takes no bribes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

263. “The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.”

— Benjamin Franklin

264. “If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

266. “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

269. “Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

271. “It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”

— Benjamin Franklin

272. “Life is a kind of chess.”

— Benjamin Franklin

273. “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”

— Benjamin Franklin

274. “Great hopes make everything great possible.”

— Benjamin Franklin

275. “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

278. “Games lubricate the body and the mind.”

— Benjamin Franklin

279. “Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

281. “Pay what you owe and you’ll know what’s your own.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

283. “The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

— Benjamin Franklin

284. “He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”

— Benjamin Franklin

285. “Women are books, and men the readers be...”

— Benjamin Franklin

286. “What you would seem to be, be really.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

290. “It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

291. “The Golden Age was never the present age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

292. “Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

— Benjamin Franklin

293. “There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn’t allow it to interfere with one’s work.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

295. “Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

— Benjamin Franklin

296. “Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.”

— Benjamin Franklin

297. “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy – “A republic,” replied the Doctor, “if you can keep it.””

— Benjamin Franklin

298. “Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

299. “Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin