Benjamin Franklin: Quotes
- Borrowing and Lending
If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Business
No nation was ever ruined by trade.: Thoughts on Commercial Subjects
- Business
Drive thy Business, or it will drive thee.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Certainty
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Conceit, Egotism, and Vanity
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Discontent
Let thy discontents be thy secrets;—if the world knows them 't will despise thee and increase them.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Enemies
There is no little enemy.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Example
Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Experience
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Greed
Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Happiness
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.: Autobiography
- Health and Fitness
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Infidelity
Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Language
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Law and Lawyers
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Medicine and Doctors
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Necessity
Necessity never made a good bargain.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Obedience
Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Secrets
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Security
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Self-Reliance
If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Time
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.: Poor Richard's Almanac
- Time
Remember that time is money.: Advice to a Young Tradesman
- Unity
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- War and Peace
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Wealth
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other World?: Poor Richard's Almanac