Franklin’s Mint
Lesser-known maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanack:
- “Happy that Nation, — fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.”
- “He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.”
- “Kings and bears often worry their keepers.”
- “Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can’st.”
- “Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.”
- “Those who are fear’d, are hated.”
- “Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.”
- “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
- “Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
And: “Mankind are very odd Creatures: One Half censure what they practise, the other half practise what they censure; and the rest always say and do as they ought.”
