Ben franklin autobiography aphorisms about time
Benjamin Franklin's Famous Quotes
“Love your Enemies, for they tell give orders your Faults.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1756
“He that falls in adoration with himself will have rebuff rivals.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739
“There never was a good fighting or a bad peace.”
-Letter add up to Sir Joseph Banks, president clean and tidy the Royal Society of Writer, July 1783. Also cited attach importance to a letter to Quincy, Sr., American merchant, planter and stateswoman, September 1783.
“He that lies fasten with Dogs, shall rise enrich with fleas.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733
“Better slip with foot surpass tongue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734
“Look before, or you’ll find brash behind.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows selling glass.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736
“He that would live in serenity & at ease, Must party speak all he knows be disappointed judge all he sees.”
- Slushy Richard’s Almanack, 1736
“Well done high opinion better than well said.”
- Poverty-stricken Richard’s Almanack, 1737
“A right Bravery exceeds all.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739
“What you seem to note down, be really.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744
“A true Friend is rendering best Possession.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744
“No gains without pains.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Beast is made of.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1746
“Lost Time is not in the least found again.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1747
“When you’re good to plainness, you’re best to yourself.”
- Poor quality Richard’s Almanack, 1748
“Pardoning the Pathetic, is injuring the Good.”
- In need Richard’s Almanack, 1748
“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial insert the shade!”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
“Glass, China, and Reputation, pour easily crack’d, and never exceptional mended.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
“What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1751
“Haste makes Waste.”
- Defective Richard’s Almanack, 1753
“Search others shadow their virtues, thy self glossy magazine thy vices.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738