Poor richard Quotes · Page 4

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

— Benjamin Franklin

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

— Benjamin Franklin

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

— Benjamin Franklin

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

— Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

— Benjamin Franklin

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

— Benjamin Franklin

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

— Benjamin Franklin

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

— Benjamin Franklin

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

— Benjamin Franklin

The things which hurt, instruct.

— Benjamin Franklin

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men and Melons are hard to know.

— Benjamin Franklin

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

— 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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— 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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Being # IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE # RIGHT WAY.

— Shiv Khera

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

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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

— Benjamin Franklin

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

— Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

— Benjamin Franklin