“Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“When you taste honey, remember gall.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“He that best understands the world, least likes it”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Little rogues easily become great ones.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.”
Source: The life of Benjamin Franklin
“He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“He that would travel much, should eat little.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.”
“Most fools think they are only ignorant.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“A good example is the best sermon.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”
“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Half-wits talk much, but say little.”
Source: Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack
“God helps them that help themselves.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
Source: Essays and Letters