Benjamin Franklin Quotes

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

~ Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.

~ Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

~ Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

~ Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

~ Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.

~ Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

~ Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

~ Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don't.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

Applause waits on success.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin