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Poor Richard Quotes

1.
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Benjamin Franklin

Tremble before the Lord, and your adversaries will cower.
Authors on Poor Richard Quotes: Benjamin Franklin George Herbert John Ray H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
2.
He that best understands the world, least likes it
Benjamin Franklin

3.
Men and Melons are hard to know.
Benjamin Franklin

4.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin

5.
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
Benjamin Franklin

6.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin

7.
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
Benjamin Franklin

8.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
Benjamin Franklin

9.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

10.
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
Benjamin Franklin

11.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin

12.
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
Benjamin Franklin

13.
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
Benjamin Franklin

14.
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
Benjamin Franklin

15.
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
Benjamin Franklin

16.
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
John Ray

17.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

18.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin

19.
Remember that a good example is the best sermon.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

20.
The used key is always bright.
Benjamin Franklin

21.
Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.
Benjamin Franklin

22.
Lying rides upon debt's back.
Benjamin Franklin

23.
Do not do that which you would not have known.
Benjamin Franklin

24.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Benjamin Franklin

25.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
Benjamin Franklin

26.
Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
Benjamin Franklin

27.
Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
Benjamin Franklin

28.
Let thy vices die before thee.
Benjamin Franklin

29.
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
Benjamin Franklin

30.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
Benjamin Franklin

31.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Benjamin Franklin

32.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
Benjamin Franklin

33.
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
Benjamin Franklin

34.
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin

35.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin

36.
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
Benjamin Franklin

37.
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
Benjamin Franklin

38.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
Benjamin Franklin

39.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
George Herbert

40.
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
Benjamin Franklin

41.
Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.
Benjamin Franklin

42.
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
Benjamin Franklin

43.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Benjamin Franklin

44.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
Benjamin Franklin

45.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
Benjamin Franklin

46.
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
Benjamin Franklin

47.
Little rogues easily become great ones.
Benjamin Franklin

48.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Benjamin Franklin

49.
He that would travel much, should eat little.
Benjamin Franklin

50.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Benjamin Franklin