Poor Richard Quotes - Page 5

• A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Country, Gold

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiring, Giving, Pleasure

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.93

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Successful, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.478

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• Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vices, Ugly, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.133, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Needs, Deeds, Ill

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

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• A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Weed, Knowledge, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

  George Herbert

  Hammers, Strikes, Stills

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• The rotten apple spoils his companion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apples, Rotten, Standards

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.58, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Bags

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.119

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Politics

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• Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Weak

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.42, Nayika Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Names, Knowing, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Speak, Mares, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Judging

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Nov. 1738

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• Taxes are indeed very heavy -
  We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness.
  Three times as much by our Pride.
  And four times as much by our Folly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Three, Taxation

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.248

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Other Worlds, Riches, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.256, Yale University Press

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Noses

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Politics

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Honest, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Giving, Office

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.234, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Ifs, All Things

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Faults, Neglect

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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