Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

304. “The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.”

— Benjamin Franklin

305. “You can’t tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

306. “Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.”

— Benjamin Franklin

307. “When passion rules, she never rules wisely.”

— Benjamin Franklin

308. “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

309. “A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

310. “Clean your finger before you point at my spots.”

— Benjamin Franklin

311. “The problem with common sense is, it isn’t.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

313. “There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

315. “If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

318. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

324. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

325. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

328. “In the dark, all cats are grey.”

— Benjamin Franklin

329. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

333. “Observe all men, thyself most.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

335. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

343. “At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

345. “He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. – Ben Franklin.”

— Benjamin Franklin

346. “Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin