Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Lying rides upon debt’s back.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

358. “Reckless youth makes rueful age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

359. “Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

363. “Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

367. “The proud hate pride in others.”

— Benjamin Franklin

368. “In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

373. “Don’t cry over spilled milk.”

— Benjamin Franklin

374. “Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

377. “He that rises late must trot all day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

381. “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

382. “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

383. “Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

385. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

387. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

389. “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

390. “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

391. “The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

393. “Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.”

— Benjamin Franklin

394. “Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.”

— Benjamin Franklin

395. “The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

397. “The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

398. “Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.”

— Benjamin Franklin

399. “Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin

400. “Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

— Benjamin Franklin