The Best Ben Franklin quotes

If you have time don’t wait for time. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. — Benjamin Franklin

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not. — Benjamin Franklin

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. — Benjamin Franklin

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful. — Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time. — Benjamin Franklin

Time is money’… Waste it now. Pay for it later! — Benjamin Franklin

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

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases. — Benjamin Franklin

Do you love life? Then don’t waste time, because time is life! — Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

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

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time. — Benjamin Franklin

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate. — Benjamin Franklin

Time is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. — Benjamin Franklin

Order–let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. — Benjamin Franklin

A man is not completely born until he is dead. — Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. — Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon. — Benjamin Franklin

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows. — Benjamin Franklin

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. — Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess. — Benjamin Franklin

Life Is A Beach…So Whenever possible go out and enjoy It…it’s always possible — Timothy Pina

The only certain things in life are death and taxes! — Benjamin Franklin

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood. — Benjamin Franklin

He that lives well, is learned enough. — Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin

I’ve striven my whole life for humility, but if I’d ever achieved it, I’d probably be pretty damn proud of that. — Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. — Benjamin Franklin

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. — Benjamin Franklin

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. — Benjamin Franklin

Hope is an essential constituent of human life. — Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. — Benjamin Franklin

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. — Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldn’t live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin

Why ruin a young girl’s life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! — Benjamin Franklin

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living’s Thinking. — Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — Benjamin Franklin

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance. — Benjamin Franklin

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies. — Benjamin Franklin

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one’s family. — Benjamin Franklin

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm. — Benjamin Franklin

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin

It is better to take many injuries than to give one. — Benjamin Franklin

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both. — Benjamin Franklin

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again. — Benjamin Franklin

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world. — Benjamin Franklin

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

The constitution only gives people The right to pursue happiness. you have to catch it yourself. — Ben Franklin

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People’s are so plenty? — Benjamin Franklin

The best doctor gives the least medicines. — Benjamin Franklin

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin

As often as we do good, we sacrifice. — Benjamin Franklin

What one relishes, nourishes. — Benjamin Franklin

Little rogues easily become great ones. — Benjamin Franklin

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. — Benjamin Franklin

Spare when young, and spend when old. — Benjamin Franklin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. — Benjamin Franklin

None are deceived but they that confide. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey. — Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. — Benjamin Franklin

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. — Benjamin Franklin

Dally not with other folk’s spouses or money. — Benjamin Franklin

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. — Benjamin Franklin

If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money. — Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money. — Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. — Benjamin Franklin

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. — Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. — Benjamin Franklin

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter. — Benjamin Franklin

The purpose of money was to purchase one’s freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. — Benjamin Franklin

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . — Benjamin Franklin

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. — Benjamin Franklin

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it. — Benjamin Franklin

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. — Benjamin Franklin

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. — Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends–an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money. — Benjamin Franklin

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. — Benjamin Franklin

A good spouse and health is a person’s best wealth. — Benjamin Franklin

Where liberty is, there is my country. — Benjamin Franklin

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety. — Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not. — Benjamin Franklin

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both. — Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison. — Benjamin Franklin

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. — Benjamin Franklin

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own. — Benjamin Franklin

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. — Benjamin Franklin

If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to the other world? — Benjamin Franklin

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing? — Benjamin Franklin

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

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients. — Benjamin Franklin

The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin

Joy doesn’t exist in the world, it exists in us. — Benjamin Franklin

It’s the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin

The noblest question in the world is: ‘What good may I do in it?’ — Benjamin Franklin

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world. — Benjamin Franklin

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! — Benjamin Franklin

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. — Benjamin Franklin

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them ’twill despise thee and increase them. — Benjamin Franklin

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. — Benjamin Franklin

The world is run by the people who show up. — Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist. — Benjamin Franklin

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. — Benjamin Franklin

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. — Benjamin Franklin

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune. — Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. — Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness. — Benjamin Franklin

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly. — Benjamin Franklin

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year’s Industry bless. — Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself. — Ben Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? — Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation. — Benjamin Franklin

The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn’t guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible. — Benjamin Franklin