Poor Richard Quotes

Poor Richard Quote of the day

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Men and Melons are hard to know.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Observe all men, thyself most.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

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

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

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

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

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

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

The used key is always bright.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

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

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

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

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

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

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Let thy vices die before thee.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

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

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

None are deceived but they that confide.

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

Little rogues easily become great ones.

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

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

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

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

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

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

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.