50+ Benjamin Franklin Quotes That Will Make You Smart 2023

1. “A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.” — Benjamin Franklin

2. “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” — Benjamin Franklin

3. “The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.” — Benjamin Franklin

4. “A fat kitchen makes a lean will.” — Benjamin Franklin

5. “God helps them who help themselves.” — Benjamin Franklin

6. “He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.” — Benjamin Franklin

7. “Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.” — Benjamin Franklin

8. “He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.” — Benjamin Franklin

9. “The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.” — Benjamin Franklin

10. “Having been poor is no shame, being ashamed of it is.” — Benjamin Franklin

11. “Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.” — Benjamin Franklin

12. “There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.” — Benjamin Franklin

13. “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” — Benjamin Franklin

14. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

15. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

16. “Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.” — Benjamin Franklin

17. “Humility makes great men twice honorable.” — Benjamin Franklin

18. “He who can have patience can have what he will.” — Benjamin Franklin

19. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” — Benjamin Franklin

20. “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” — Benjamin Franklin

21. “When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!’” — Benjamin Franklin

22. “There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” — Benjamin Franklin

23. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin

24. “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” — Benjamin Franklin

25. “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freshness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin

26. “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” — Benjamin Franklin

27. “Let all of your Things have their Places. Let each Part of your Business have its Time.” — Benjamin Franklin

28. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

29. “A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.” — Benjamin Franklin

30. “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” — Benjamin Franklin

31. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin

32. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin

33. “Distrust and caution are the parents of security.” — Benjamin Franklin

34. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” — Benjamin Franklin

35. “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough, to be honest.” — Benjamin Franklin

36. “Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.” — Benjamin Franklin

37. “I never saw an oft-removed tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throne so well as those that settled be.” — Benjamin Franklin

38. “Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.” — Benjamin Franklin

39. “Eat to live, and not live to eat.” — Benjamin Franklin

40. “A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him.” — Benjamin Franklin

41. “Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.” — Benjamin Franklin

42. “There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.” — Benjamin Franklin

43. “If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.” — Benjamin Franklin

44. “Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.” — Benjamin Franklin

45. “Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin

46. “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.” — Benjamin Franklin

47. “If you love life, don’t waste time, because time is what life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

48. “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin

49. “You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

50. “Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.” — Benjamin Franklin

51. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” — Benjamin Franklin

52. “Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else.” — Benjamin Franklin

53. “Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.” — Benjamin Franklin