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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Topic: Admiration
Source: None
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Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.
Topic: Adultery
Source: None
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He that won't be counselled can't be helped.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Fish and guests smell after three days.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Topic: Affliction
Source: None
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
Topic: Bargain
Source: None
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If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: None
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Topic: Buying
Source: None
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The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.
Topic: Cats
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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Teach your child to hold his tongue,
He'll learn fast enough to speak.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Poor Richard Maxims
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Topic: Complaint
Source: None
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Topic: Conformity
Source: None
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A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
Topic: Conscience
Source: None
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I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
Topic: Constitution
Source: None
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".
Topic: Country
Source: None
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Remember that credit is money.
Topic: Credit
Source: None
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
Topic: Danger
Source: None
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In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Topic: Deceit
Source: None
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We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Topic: Declaration of Independence
Source: None
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Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Topic: Despair
Source: None
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Topic: Disappointments
Source: None
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Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.
Topic: Discontent
Source: None
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Topic: Discontent
Source: None
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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Topic: Eating
Source: Poor Richard
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A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.
Topic: Economy
Source: None
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Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Topic: Economy
Source: None
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Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Topic: Economy
Source: None
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Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.
Topic: Economy
Source: None
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am
yours.
Topic: Enemies
Source: Letter to William Strahan
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Topic: Enemies
Source: Letter to William Strahan
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln There is no little enemy. •Benjamin Franklin The friend of my enemy is my enemy. •Anonymous With friends like this, who needs enemies? •Henny Youngman It is impossible for one person to know another so well that he can dispense with belief. •Friedrich Durrenmatt The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. •Aesop The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. •Sam Levenson It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. •William Blake He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. •Eddie Cantor You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. •Eric Hoffer I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. •Bette Davis It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. •Sally Kempton We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. •Ricther Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work. •Anonymous Enemies promises were made to be broken. •Aesop The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. •William Ellery Channing You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. •Joseph Conrad Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. •R A Dickson I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. •Benjamin Franklin A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. •Baltasar Gracian I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! •Warren Gamaliel Harding Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. •Ernest Jones Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. •John F. Kennedy Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. •Stephen King Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. •Francois De La Rochefoucauld There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. •Frankfort Moore He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. •Friedrich Nietzsche Bear patiently with a rival. •Ovid Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. •Proverb Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. •Dante Gabriel Rossetti Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. •N. F. Simpson Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. •Gordon Sumner One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. •Jonathan Swift In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Topic: Enemy
Source: None
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There is no little enemy.
Topic: Enemy
Source: None
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Energy and persistence alter all things.
Topic: Energy
Source: None
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