Top 40 Benjamin Franklin Quotes


Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.


Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.


Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Well done is better than well said.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Some people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until seventy five.

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.


Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.Where liberty dwells there is my country.

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