“Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.”
“The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition
“Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation
“It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.”
“As often as we do good, we sacrifice.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today”
“Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“In the dark, all cats are grey.”
Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings
“A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.”
Source: The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth
“Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.”
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation”
“If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?”
Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
“Success has ruin'd many a man.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.”
Source: The select works of Benjamin Franklin
“In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"”
“It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes
“Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
Source: The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.”
Source: The life of Benjamin Franklin
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself to a late period, and continued to his death by W.T. Franklin. Comprising the private correspondence and public negotiations of dr. Franklin and a selection from his works
Source: Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes