Poor Richard Quotes - Page 4

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Visitors, Busy

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Observe all men, thyself most.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Self Observation, Self Discovery

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.56, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Finding Yourself, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.28, Nayika Publishing

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• When you taste honey, remember gall.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honey, Taste, Remember

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Habit, Resolve, Hereafter

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

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• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thinking, Buying In

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Men, May

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knaves, Betray, Scarce

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He that would travel much, should eat little.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Should

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Benjamin Franklin (193?). “The life and letters”

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• Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spring, Toil, Ease

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.11

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• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Humorous, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sloth, Laziness, Easy

  Benjamin Franklin (2011). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters”, p.224, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The discontented man finds no easy chair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Easy, Chairs

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Night, Laziness

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.286, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Littles, Enough

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.237

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• To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Light, Proud

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Butterfly, Gaudy

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.79, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Leadership, Discipline

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

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• The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

  John Ray

  Horse, Thinking, One Thing

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.12

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• Do not do that which you would not have known.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Known

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

  Robert Herrick

  Sex, Disease, Abstinence

  Hesperides 'Abstinence'

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• Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cost, Courtesy, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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

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