“Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Source: The life and letters
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“God helps those who help themselves.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
Source: Essays and Letters
“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom
“A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
Source: Writings
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“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
“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
“Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“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
“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“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