Poor Richard's Almanack Quotes

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Lost Time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.”
― Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Speak little, do much.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Women are books, and men the readers be...”
― Benjamin Franklin, "The Sayings of Poor Richard": The Prefaces, Proverbs, And Poems Of Benjamin Franklin, Originally Printed In Poor Richard's Almanacs For 1773 1758

“There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.”
― Benjamin Franklin, "The Sayings of Poor Richard": The Prefaces, Proverbs, And Poems Of Benjamin Franklin, Originally Printed In Poor Richard's Almanacs For 1773 1758

“A friend in need is a friend indeed!”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Clean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
― Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richard's Almanack

“Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Today is Yesterday's Pupil.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“What you would seem to be, be really.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Great Modesty often hides great Merit.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“The Proud hate Pride – in others.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“He’s a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack