Benjamin Franklin Richard Quotations

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

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

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

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

None are deceived but they that confide.

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

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

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

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

The used key is always bright.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

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

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

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Let thy vices die before thee.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

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

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

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

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

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Little rogues easily become great ones.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

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

He that would travel much, should eat little.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

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

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

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

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

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

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame