Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738
“What more valuable than gold? Diamonds. Than diamonds? Virtue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1751
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade!”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
“When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1746
“A true friend is the best possession.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744
“A right heart exceeds all.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736
“Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1756
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
-Letter to the president of the Royal Society of London, July 1783.
“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734
“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736
“Well done is better than well said.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1737
“What you seem to be, be really.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744
“No gains without pains.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745
“Lost time is never found again.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1747
“Pardoning the bad, is injuring the good.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748
“Glass, china, and reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
“Haste makes waste.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1753
“It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
