Favorites from Poor Richard's Almanack

I love quotations of every kind. Currently I'm reading a lot of American Literature because it happens to be what I'm teaching.  Here are some of the more interesting proverbs from sifting through Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack.

"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

"Many have quarreled about religion that have never practiced it."

"Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at other's expense."

"Men and melons are hard to know."

"Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge."  Benjamin Franklin

"Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it."

"Well done is better than well said."

"What you would seem to be, be really."

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

"Wink at small faults; remember thou has great ones."

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

"Who hast deceived thee so oft as thyself?"

"Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."

Portrait by Michael J. Deas

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

"You may delay but time will not."

"Tis hard (but glorious) to be poor and honest.

"To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to be with a razor."

"The things which hurt, instruct."

"The sting of a reproach is the truth of it."

"The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of Reason.  The morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle."

"The too obliging temper is evermore disobliging itself."

"Love well, whip well."   Hmmmm...definitely not politically correct, ha!

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."

"The noblest question in the world is what good may I do in it?"

"Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."