Poor Richard Quotes - Page 5

• Taxes are indeed very heavy -
  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

  Pride, Three, Taxation

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.248

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• To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Light, Proud

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Needs, Deeds, Ill

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

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• Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Hours, Minutes

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

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• Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Advice, Reason, Feels

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

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• There is none deceived but he that trusts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Trust, Deceived

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Speak, Mares, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Bags

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.119

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• What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Names, Knowing, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.42, Nayika Publishing

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• Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cost, Courtesy, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Politics

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• If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Beauty, Sex

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

  Benjamin Franklin

  Silence, Goes On, Fool

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Noses

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

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• If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Other Worlds, Riches, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.256, Yale University Press

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Politics

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• The rotten apple spoils his companion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apples, Rotten, Standards

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.58, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Medicine, Needs

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

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• Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Littles, Enough

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.237

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• If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Evil, Bears, Action

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• The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Honey, Bees

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.255

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

  George Herbert

  Hammers, Strikes, Stills

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vices, Ugly, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.133, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Judging

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Nov. 1738

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