“The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“None are deceived but they that confide.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“What maintains one vice would bring up two children.”
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
“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
“He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Constant dropping wears away stones”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”
Source: Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52
“Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Men and Melons are hard to know.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Men take more pains to mask than mend.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“A little neglect may breed great mischief.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”
Source: 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.”
“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
“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
“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 ...
“Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“The used key is always bright.”
Source: Maxims and Morals from Dr. Franklin: Being Incitements to Industry, Frugality, and Prudence