Here are some of the most significant quotes by Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker Josiah Franklin. Benjamin’s mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.
Benjamin Franklin was many things in his lifetime: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a Founding Father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common problems, innovating new technology, and even making life a little more musical.
Here are some of Benjamin Franklin’s most significant inventions: Lightning Rod, Bifocals, Swim Fins, Franklin Stove, Urinary Catheter, Armonica.
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“Clean your finger before you point at my spots.”–Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Reading makes a full man, meditates a profound man, discourses a clear man.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue, it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Without continual growth and progress, words such as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Whatever begins in anger ends in shame.”- Benjamin Franklin. Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Most Famous Quotes
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”- Benjamin Franklin
“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”- Benjamin Franklin
“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Well done is better than well said.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”- Benjamin Franklin
“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”- Benjamin Franklin
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Half wits talk a lot, but say little.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“A little neglect may breed great mischief.”- Benjamin Franklin
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Famous Quotes
“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”- Benjamin Franklin
“I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.”- Benjamin Franklin
“A man in a passion rides a wild horse.”- Benjamin Franklin
“He that rises late must trot all day.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
Inspirational Quotes About Life And Struggles! Short Quotes
“If you have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself.”- Benjamin Franklin
“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”- Benjamin Franklin
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”- Benjamin Franklin
“It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.”- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Motivational Quotes
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”- Benjamin Franklin
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”- Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”- Benjamin Franklin
“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”- Benjamin Franklin
“For age and want to save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Plow deep while sluggards sleep.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”- Benjamin Franklin
“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”- Benjamin Franklin
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Quotes
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.”- Benjamin Franklin
Motivational Quotes For Success ! Short Inspirational Quotes
“To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”- Benjamin Franklin
“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.”- Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin Education Quotes
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Never confuse motion with action.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Lost time is never found again.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Constant dropping wears away stones” – Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Drive your business, let your business not drive you.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“There have been as many great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”- Benjamin Franklin
“You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be enough sleep in the grave.”- Benjamin Franklin
“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”- Benjamin Franklin
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s Quotes
“Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”- Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”- Benjamin Franklin
“If you know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”- Benjamin Franklin
“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”- Benjamin Franklin
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”- Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Good conscience is a continual Christmas.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. “- Benjamin Franklin
“The best is the cheapest.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
“Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Energy and persistence alter all things.”- Quotes by Benjamin Franklin!
” He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. “- Benjamin Franklin
“He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.”- Benjamin Franklin
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.”- Benjamin Franklin
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”- Benjamin Franklin
“One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.”- Benjamin Franklin
“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Those that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear the reason she will rap you on the knuckles.”- Benjamin Franklin
“Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”- Benjamin Franklin
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”- Benjamin Franklin
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”- Benjamin Franklin
“The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.”- Benjamin Franklin
RELATED:
Swami Vivekananda Quotes That Inspires And Motivates Us
Comments are closed.