Top 1425 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Franklin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Benjamin Franklin.

Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States Postmaster General.

American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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Honesty is the best policy.

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Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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Half a truth is often a great lie.

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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

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

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Lost time is never found again.

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

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When in doubt, don't.

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

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Well done is better than well said.

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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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

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

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

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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

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You may delay, but time will not.

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Where liberty is, there is my country.

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He that can have patience can have what he will.

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

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A place for everything, everything in its place.

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

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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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