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If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? - Poor Richard [Wealth] Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Poor Richard [Work] Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise. - Poor Richard [Wisdom] Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Poor Richard [Secrecy] Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. - Poor Richard [Proverbs] 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. - Poor Richard [Revenge] Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. - Poor Richard [Matrimony] Handle your tools without mittens. - Poor Richard (preface) [Work] Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. - Poor Richard Maxims [Childhood] For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost-- And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. - Poor Richard's Almanac, a version of the quotation [Care] For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. - Poor Richard's Almanac, a version of the quotation [Care : Proverbs] If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Money] Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Economy] Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Tomorrow] One today is worth two tomorrows. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Tomorrow] The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Cats] 'Tis great Confidence in a Friend to tell him your Faults, greater to tell him his. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Friendship] What maintains one vice would bring up two children. - Poor Richard's Almanac [Vice] Where there is Hunger, Law is not regarded; and where Law is not regarded, there will be Hunger. - Poor Richard's Almanack [Hunger : Law] He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. - The Whistle [Worth] If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle. - The Whistle [Misers] Displaying page 11 of 11 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11]
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