156 Quotes By Benjamin Franklin


Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin on time

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin on time

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin on time

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin on time

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin on time

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin on truth

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin on war

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin on war

Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

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 wisdom

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin on work

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin on work

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin on work

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin on work

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin on work

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin on christmas

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin on absence