Browsing Topic Best Poor Richard Quotes

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

It’s the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

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

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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

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

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

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

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

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

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

The things which hurt, instruct.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

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