Quotes on Poor Richard

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,_x000D_ but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

A good example is the best sermon.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.