Poor Richard Quotes - Page 2

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

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

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.

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

Let thy vices die before thee.

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

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

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

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

Do not do that which you would not have known.

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

None are deceived but they that confide.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

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

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

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

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

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

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

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