Poor richard Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

— Benjamin Franklin

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it

— Benjamin Franklin

He that would travel much, should eat little.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

— Benjamin Franklin

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

— Benjamin Franklin

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

— Benjamin Franklin

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

— Benjamin Franklin

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

— Benjamin Franklin

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

— Benjamin Franklin

“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will…

— Benjamin Franklin

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a…

— Benjamin Franklin

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would…

— Benjamin Franklin

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones…

— Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as…

— Benjamin Franklin

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not do that which you would not have known.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

— Benjamin Franklin

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hunger never saw bad bread.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

— Benjamin Franklin

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

— Benjamin Franklin