Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

302. “Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.”

— Benjamin Franklin

303. “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”

— Benjamin Franklin

304. “Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

306. “Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

308. “That which hurts, also instructs.”

— Benjamin Franklin

309. “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

311. “A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.”

— Benjamin Franklin

312. “If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”

— Benjamin Franklin

313. “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

314. “Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”

— Benjamin Franklin

315. “If you’d be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

317. “Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

318. “Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

319. “Read much, but not too many books.”

— Benjamin Franklin

320. “A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”

— Benjamin Franklin

321. “Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

322. “Observe all men, thyself most.”

— Benjamin Franklin

323. “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

— Benjamin Franklin

324. “Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.”

— Benjamin Franklin

325. “Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”

— Benjamin Franklin

326. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”

— Benjamin Franklin

327. “Democracy is like having two wolves and a lamb decide what is for dinner.”

— Benjamin Franklin

328. “If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.”

— Benjamin Franklin

329. “The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.”

— Benjamin Franklin

330. “Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.”

— Benjamin Franklin

331. “For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

332. “Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.”

— Benjamin Franklin

333. “Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

335. “Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”

— Benjamin Franklin

336. “Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”

— Benjamin Franklin

337. “Every pot must sit on its own bottom.”

— Benjamin Franklin

338. “By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.”

— Benjamin Franklin

339. “Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

340. “Wisdom is in measured routine. Three naps a day will keep you fit, nine breakfasts before noon, spin until you fall on your back, and thrust your face into a nettle plant. Drink at least five cups of a mare’s urine and look upon your self in a silver mirror while you hold your air in your chest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

341. “Lying rides upon debt’s back.”

— Benjamin Franklin

342. “The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

343. “If your head is made of wax, don’t walk in the sun.”

— Benjamin Franklin

344. “Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”

— Benjamin Franklin

345. “After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”

— Benjamin Franklin

346. “He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”

— Benjamin Franklin

347. “Give me yesterday’s bread, this day’s flesh, and last year’s cider.”

— Benjamin Franklin

348. “A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day ’s a groat a year.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

350. “Reckless youth makes rueful age.”

— Benjamin Franklin