Benjamin Franklin Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

280 Famous Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”
Talent Quotes
“Lost time is never found again.”
Time Quotes
“You may delay, but time will not.”
Time Quotes
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
Tragedy Quotes
“Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask”
Vice Quotes
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Vice Quotes
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Virtue Quotes
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
Virtue Quotes
“It's easy to see, hard to foresee.”
Vision Quotes
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Wine Quotes
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
Writing Quotes
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Oration
“Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.”
Secrecy Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.”
Wives Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.”
Cats Quotes
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
“The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.”
Liberty Quotes
Source: in correspondence
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Liberty Quotes
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Liberty Quotes
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Mottoes Quotes
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
“Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.”
Tomorrow Quotes
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
Tomorrow Quotes
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
“Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
Washington, george Quotes
Source: Letter to Washington