Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

354. “There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah – get first all the people’s money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

356. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

358. “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

359. “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

360. “Be cheerful – the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.”

— Benjamin Franklin

361. “Silence – Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”

— Benjamin Franklin

362. “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

363. “Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous.”

— Benjamin Franklin

364. “You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.”

— Benjamin Franklin

365. “The purpose of money was to purchase one’s freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.”

— Benjamin Franklin

366. “The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

367. “Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”

— Benjamin Franklin

368. “In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.”

— Benjamin Franklin

369. “No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

373. “The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

376. “Success has ruined many a man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

381. “Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

386. “Lying rides upon debt’s back.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

389. “Reckless youth makes rueful age.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

392. “As Pride increases, Fortune declines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

400. “In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

— Benjamin Franklin