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Browse the proverbs
An alphabetical collection of short observations and advice.
97 proverbs
- A Butterfly Drest
- A Child and a Fool
- A Fat Kitchen
- A Little Neglect
- A Loud Beggar
- A Mickle
- A Plowman on his Legs
- A Sheep and a Cow
- A Short Lent
- A Small Leak
- A-Borrowing
- Affairs of the World
- All Things Easy
- Always Taking Out
- An Empty Bag
- An Estate
- Be Ashamed
- Borrower is Slave
- Buying Bargains
- Can't Give Conduct
- Cat in Gloves
- Consistency
- Consult Your Purse
- Creditors’ Memories
- Dainties Love
- Die Fasting
- Diligent Mouse
- Diligent Spinner
- Dining on Vanity
- Do it Today
- Don't Squander Time
- Drive Your Business
- Early to Bed
- Employ Time Well
- Expense is Certain
- Eye of the Master
- Fill a Bushel
- Fools Make Feasts
- For Want of a Nail
- Go Yourself
- God Gives
- Great Wants
- Help Themselves
- Hold or Drive
- Industry
- Inglorious Here
- Keep Near Shore
- Keep Thy Shop
- Lead Into Gold
- Learn from Others
- Leaving Your Purse Open
- Leisure vs Laziness
- Little Strokes
- Morning Sun
- Mother of Luck
- Moving and Fire
- Never Found
- No Pain, No Gain
- On Debt's Back
- One Today
- Pause a While
- Pays Debts
- Pleasure For the Busy
- Plow Deep
- Poor and Indigent
- Rap Your Knuckles
- Repentance
- Riches to the Careful
- Rise in Debt
- Saving and Getting
- School of Experience
- Selling Necessaries
- Settled Be
- Silks and Satins
- Sleep Later
- Sleeping Fox
- Spent in the Getting
- Sup with Infamy
- Superstitious Creditors
- The Bold and Virtuous
- The Dry Well
- The First Desire
- The Second Vice
- The Used Key
- The Workingman's House
- Toil from Ease
- Too Little Time
- Trot All Day
- Try to Borrow
- Two Chimneys
- Value the Hour
- Vice and Children
- Want of Care
- Wasting Time
- Wits with Labor
- Won't Be Counselled
- Word to the Wise
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Thoughts by Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanac, or from his letters, on life and prosperity.