Poor Richards Almanack Quotes

“A friend in need is a friend indeed!”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“Speak little, do much.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Women are books, and men the readers be...”

“He that’s content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.”

“Wise Men learn by other’s harms; Fools by their own.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”