Poor richard Quotes · Page 7

Men and Melons are hard to know.

— Benjamin Franklin

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— 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

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Shiv Khera

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

— Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

— Benjamin Franklin