Poor Richard Quotes - Page 8

• Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Saying And Doing, Quarrels

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.264, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Rivers, Swim

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Understanding, Body

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.32, Nayika Publishing

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• To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humble, Humility, Modesty

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Liberality

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All would live long, but none would be old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Age, Would Be

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Sept. 1749

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• Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Want, Break, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Recovery

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Littles, Too Much

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

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• The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.170, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Relationship, Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Helping Others, World, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.54, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Sloth, Overcoming

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Merit, Modesty

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Desire, Seems, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

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• Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Greatest Wealth, Riches

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

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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

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• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, 4th Of July, School

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.120

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• Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fashion, Philosophy, Wells

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Men, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

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• Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Friendship, Civility, Ceremony

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Time, Life Is Short

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• Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Wife, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Differences

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Morning, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.94, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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