The Best 35 Maxims from Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanack” At the height of its popularity, the Almanack sold 10,000 copies a year, making it a best-seller in colonial America.

2. “Vessels large may
venture more, But
little boats should
keep near shore.”
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN

3. “THE
DISCONTEN
TED MAN
FINDS NO
EASY
CHAIR.”

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

5. “Life biggest tragedy is that we get
old too soon and wise too late”

6. “He that speaks much, is
much mistaken.”

8. “Would you live with ease,
Do what you ought, and not
what you please.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

9. Involve Me and I Learn

10. “Drive thy business
or it will drive thee.”
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN

11. “The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN

12. “Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never
happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
―
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN

13. Industry. Lose no time; be always employ’d
in something useful; cut off all
unnecessary actions.
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN

15. “Truth is brighter than
light.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

17. “Sloth, like
rust,
consumes
faster than
labor
wears;
while the
used key is
always
bright”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

18. “If we all think alike, no one is thinking.”

19. “Who had deceived thee so often as
thyself?”
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN

20. “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.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

21. “Tis hard for an
empty bag to stand
upright.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

23. Wink at small
faults;
remember thou hast
great ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

24. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

25. He that waits upon
Fortune, is never sure of a
Dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

28. Lost
time is
never
found
again.

29. .

31. Plough deep, while Sluggards
sleep; And you shall have Corn, to
sell and to keep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

32. Time is a herb that cures all diseases.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

33. The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, is to
save all the money they can touch

34. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

35. Beware of
meat
twice
boiled,
and an
old foe
reconcile
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36. He that would travel much should eat little.
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FRANKLI
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