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Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Life

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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Wise, Wisdom

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Truth, Lying
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Long, Fortune Cookie
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Life, Crazy
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, 4th Of July, Safety
sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Happiness, Strong
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.42, Nayika Publishing

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Men, Wish
Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Improvement
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Cheating, Real
Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Relationship, Friends
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Strength
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Sloth, Overcoming
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.7, Courier Corporation

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Writing, Next
Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Men, Long
"The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin".

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Bible
Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Happiness, Men
Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.280

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Pain, Office

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Giving, Advice
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Happiness, Men
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.197, Applewood Books

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

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Inspirational, Life
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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