156 Quotes By Benjamin Franklin


At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin on age

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin on alone

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin on anger

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin on anger

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin on anniversary

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin on art

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin on beauty

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin on best

Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin on best

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin on best

Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin on best

Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin on best

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin on business

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin on business

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin on business

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin on change

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin on courage

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin on death

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin on death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin on death