Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

356. “Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

357. “Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

359. “Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

364. “The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.”

— Benjamin Franklin

365. “The proud hate pride in others.”

— Benjamin Franklin

366. “Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

367. “A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.”

— Benjamin Franklin

368. “Joy doesn’t exist in the world, it exists in us.”

— Benjamin Franklin

369. “A full Belly brings forth every Evil.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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371. “Half-wits talk much, but say little.”

— Benjamin Franklin

372. “Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

376. “The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.”

— Benjamin Franklin

377. “None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

380. “Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.”

— Benjamin Franklin

381. “Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

— Benjamin Franklin

382. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

384. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

390. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

392. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

395. “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

396. “Applause waits on success.”

— Benjamin Franklin

397. “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

398. “What one relishes, nourishes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin