Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

358. “In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

360. “The proud hate pride in others.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

365. “Don’t cry over spilled milk.”

— Benjamin Franklin

366. “Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

374. “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

375. “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

376. “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

377. “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

378. “Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

380. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

384. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— 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. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

392. “What one relishes, nourishes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

393. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

396. “Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

399. “Applause waits on success.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin