Age Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

— Benjamin Franklin

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

— Benjamin Franklin

An old young man, will be a young old man.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I am in the prime of senility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

— Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old.

— Benjamin Franklin

The Golden Age was never the present age.

— Benjamin Franklin

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

— Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

— Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

— Benjamin Franklin

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my…

— Benjamin Franklin

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found…

— Benjamin Franklin

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I…

— Benjamin Franklin

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .…

— Benjamin Franklin

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man…

— Benjamin Franklin

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought…

— Benjamin Franklin

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both…

— Benjamin Franklin

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build…

— Benjamin Franklin