Benjamin Franklin Ride Quotations

The proud hate pride in others.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Timothy was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.

A little neglect may breed mischief: 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

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of...

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost, Forwant of a rider the battle was lost, For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse.