Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Friendship

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Leadership, Real Friends

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

• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Winning, Enemy

• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Friendship, Fake Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Dog, Money

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

• Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Pride, Government

• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Long, History

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.109, Regnery Publishing

• If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, True Friend, Beloved

• A friend in need is a friend indeed!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Needs, Friendship Memories

  Donald Mackintosh, Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases ... To which is added, 'The way to wealth' by Benjamin Franklin”, p.17

• If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Keeping Secrets, Enemy

  "The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac".

• Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Men, Promise

  "Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One" by Benjamin Franklin and D. Hall, printed in George Fisher "The American Instructor: or Young Man’s Best Companion" (pp. 375-377), founders.archives.gov. July 21, 1748.

• Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Use

• Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Party, Forever

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.418

• No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Faithful, Prudent

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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