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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 John Ray H. Jackson Brown, Jr. George Herbert
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 horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
John Ray

16.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

17.
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
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.
Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
Benjamin Franklin

24.
Let thy vices die before thee.
Benjamin Franklin

25.
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
Benjamin Franklin

26.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
Benjamin Franklin

27.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Benjamin Franklin

28.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
Benjamin Franklin

29.
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
Benjamin Franklin

30.
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin

31.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin

32.
Do not do that which you would not have known.
Benjamin Franklin

33.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Benjamin Franklin

34.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
Benjamin Franklin

35.
Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
Benjamin Franklin

36.
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
Benjamin Franklin

37.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Benjamin Franklin

38.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
Benjamin Franklin

39.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
Benjamin Franklin

40.
Little rogues easily become great ones.
Benjamin Franklin

41.
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
Benjamin Franklin

42.
He that would travel much, should eat little.
Benjamin Franklin

43.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Benjamin Franklin

44.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Benjamin Franklin

45.
None are deceived but they that confide.
Benjamin Franklin

46.
He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Benjamin Franklin

47.
They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
Benjamin Franklin

48.
There is none deceived but he that trusts.
Benjamin Franklin

49.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Benjamin Franklin

50.
Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.
Benjamin Franklin