Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

360. “In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

364. “Lying rides upon debt’s back.”

— Benjamin Franklin

365. “Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

368. “There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

369. “Reckless youth makes rueful age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

370. “The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.”

— Benjamin Franklin

371. “Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.”

— Benjamin Franklin

372. “A dying man can do nothing easy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

373. “Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.”

— Benjamin Franklin

374. “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

375. “An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.”

— Benjamin Franklin

376. “Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

— Benjamin Franklin

377. “A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook’s Shop.”

— Benjamin Franklin

378. “Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

379. “A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”

— Benjamin Franklin

380. “In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

— Benjamin Franklin

381. “Why ruin a young girl’s life when you can make an older women SO very happy !”

— Benjamin Franklin

382. “The proud hate pride in others.”

— Benjamin Franklin

383. “Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

384. “Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.”

— Benjamin Franklin

385. “A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.”

— Benjamin Franklin

386. “He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”

— Benjamin Franklin

387. “Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.”

— Benjamin Franklin

388. “I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

389. “Those who laugh often never grow old.”

— Benjamin Franklin

390. “Men take more pains to mask than mend.”

— Benjamin Franklin

391. “In a discreet man’s mouth, a public thing is private.”

— Benjamin Franklin

392. “The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.”

— Benjamin Franklin

393. “Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”

— Benjamin Franklin

394. “When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.”

— Benjamin Franklin

395. “A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”

— Benjamin Franklin

396. “Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

397. “God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

398. “Everybody’s human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.”

— Benjamin Franklin

399. “Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

— Benjamin Franklin

400. “A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.”

— Benjamin Franklin