Top 100 Poor Richard Quotes
#1. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing, as Poor Richard says; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Benjamin Franklin
#5. 'Tis true there is much to be done, ... but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones ... and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says ...
Benjamin Franklin
#6. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK T
Neil Gaiman
#7. If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
Richard Rogers
#9. I will garden on the double run,
my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes,
and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind
and work until my heart is short,
then go out slowly with a feeble grin,
my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray
from cramps and the lack of oxygen.
Richard Hugo
#11. Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.
Richard Armitage
#12. If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
Richard Carmona
#14. God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. ("Mad House")
Richard Matheson
#15. South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
Richard Stanley
#16. If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Benjamin Franklin
#18. The past makes a good bishop but a poor king ... it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.
Richard Paul Evans
#19. With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
Richard M. Nixon
#20. A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
Richard Lamm
#22. Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
#23. Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,
but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.
Richard Greenberg
#25. What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
Richard Engel
#26. Poor innocent me, just going about my business, then you raped me down the ear with your gun."
Lindsay nicks the bottle, smirking just slightly, and say's " You loved it, you tart.
Richard Rider
#27. Ogbenyealu is a common name for girls and you know what it means? 'Not to Be Married to a Poor Man.' To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best." Richard
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#28. If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.
Richard Russo
#29. Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
#30. But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.
Richard M. Nixon
#31. Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.
Richard Wexler
#33. They who have nothing to trouble them,
will be troubled at nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
#34. I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.
Richard Gilman
#35. Class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.
Richard G. Wilkinson
#36. The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
Benjamin Franklin
#37. In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.
Richard J. Foster
#38. With the exception of Leviticus and Numbers, written by the priestly classes, most of the Bible is written by or about people who are occupied, enslaved, poor or disenfranchised in some way!
Richard Rohr
#39. He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
Benjamin Franklin
#40. What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
Richard Rogers
#42. Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.
Richard Branson
#43. Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
Benjamin Franklin
#44. Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?
Richard Sibbes
#45. Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.
Martin Amis
#47. Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, 'I must be penniless.
Jeffrey Archer
#49. When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.
Russell Brand
#50. It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
Richard Hofstadter
#51. Did you ever feel happy in church?" "Naw. I didn't want to. Nobody but poor folks get happy in church." "But you are poor, Bigger."
Again Bigger's eyes lit with a bitter and feverish pride. "I ain't that poor.
Richard Wright
#52. He that is rich need not live sparingly,
and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.
Richard G. Scott
#56. When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Benjamin Franklin
#57. His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'
Richard Gere
#60. Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. Oh we're a mess, poor humans, poor flesh - hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We've been to the moon and we're still fighting over Jerusalem.
Richard Siken
#64. It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.
Richard J. Foster
#65. Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."
Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
Richard Adams
#66. What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
Benjamin Franklin
#68. If you have become entangled in sin from poor choices, please decide to come back now. You know how to begin. Do it now. We love you. We need you. God will help you.
Richard G. Scott
#69. Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!
Charles Dickens
#70. John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!"
Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see.
James Goldman
#73. Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
Richard M. Nixon
#74. For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound ... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.
Richard Wagner
#79. He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Benjamin Franklin
#82. He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
Benjamin Franklin
#84. The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.
Richard Llewellyn
#85. he folded the parchment and put it away. The words raised some questions in his mind but as there was no one to ask he decided it was better to have good advice you didn't entirely understand than poor precepts that were perfectly clear.
Richard Monaco
#86. The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
Richard Attias
#87. Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
Richard J. Codey
#90. The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#91. I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.
Richard Branson
#92. I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.
Richard Flanagan
#93. I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.
Richard C. Armitage
#96. There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#98. I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#99. When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
George Herbert
#100. The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
John Ray
