The Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin
All quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
- God helps those who help themselves
- If you love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of
- The sleeping fox catches no poultry
- Lost time is never found again
- He who rises late must trot all day
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- There are no gains without pains
- At the working man’s house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter
- Industry pays debts, while despair increases them
- Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and keep
- Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today
- The cat in gloves catch no mice
- Little strokes fell great oakes
- Since you are not sure of a minute, do not throw away an hour
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things
- Keep your shop and your shop will keep you
- The eye of the master will do more work than both hands
- If you want a faithful servant, and one that you like – serve yourself
- A fat kitchen makes a lean will
- If you want to be wealthy, think of saving as well as earning
- What maintanes one vice would bring up two children
- Beward of little expenses; A small lead will sink a great ship
- Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
- Buy what you do not need, and soon you will sell your neccessities
- It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance
- Silks and satins and scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire
- A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees
- Always taking out of the pot, and never putting in, one soon comes to the bottom
- If you want to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some
- Pride is as loud a beggar as need
- It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it
- Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt
- Think what you do when you run into debt; you give to another power over your liberty
- The second vice is lying, the first is running into debt
- It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright
- Creditors have better memories than debtors
- Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt
- Experience keeps an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other
- Those who will not be counseled, cannot be helped