“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly”
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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.”
Source: The Way to Wealth
“Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.”
Source: The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
“Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Source: The life and letters
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“God helps those who help themselves.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
“Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended”
Source: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition
“God helps them that help themselves.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
Source: The Real Benjamin Franklin
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.”
Source: Poor Richard: An Almanack
“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography
“Clean your finger before you point at my spots.”
Source: The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1
“Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“What you would seem to be, be really.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack