Poor richard Quotes by Benjamin Franklin · Page 3

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

— Benjamin Franklin

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

— Benjamin Franklin

Little rogues easily become great ones.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

— Benjamin Franklin

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

— Benjamin Franklin

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

— Benjamin Franklin

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

— Benjamin Franklin

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

— Benjamin Franklin

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

— Benjamin Franklin

The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

— Benjamin Franklin

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

— Benjamin Franklin