Poor Richard Quotes - Page 11

• 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".

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• Men take more pains to mask than mend.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Men, Mask

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Deeds, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The proud hate pride in others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Pride, Proud

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thee, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Men, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.66, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Failure

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• 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

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• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Acceptance, Self, Jewels

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Cat, Law

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Marriage, Love And Marriage

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Money, 4th Of July

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1758) preface

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• Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Lawyer, Pot

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Age, May

  Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin”, p.95

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• Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love You, 4th Of July, Good Neighbor

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Example, Remember, Sermons

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.177, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin

  Caring, Doe, Care

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.218

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