Benjamin Franklin Quotes

These Benjamin Franklin quotes are a must to include when one considers famous quotes and life quotes. He was an amazing man and his words of wisdom still ring true today.

Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotations

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
- Benjamin Franklin


"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
- Benjamin Franklin


"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
- Benjamin Franklin


"As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence."
- Benjamin Franklin


"After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather."
- 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


"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin


"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
- Benjamin Franklin


"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
- Benjamin Franklin


"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness--you have to catch it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin


"At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment."
- Benjamin Franklin


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


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


"All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other."
- Benjamin Franklin


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