Ben's Quotes
* Print
out this page and use it to take a quiz. Complete each quote by writing a
word in the blank.
* Clue One: The first letters of the missing words spell the full name of
Poor Richard, plus the title he gave himself.
* Clue Two: All these quotes from Poor Richard are found in Franklin's pamphlet
called The Way to Wealth.
* Score the quiz on the honor system. (You can find the answer page online
by clicking on Notes.)
1. Early to bed and early
to ______ makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
2. ______ pays debts, while despair increases them.
3. ______ have better memories than debtors.
4. God helps them that ______ themselves.
5. Be ______ to catch yourself idle.
6. If you will not hear ______, she'll surely rap your knuckles.
7. ______ is the mother of good luck.
8. Little ______ fell great oaks.
9. We may give ______ but we cannot give conduct.
10. Let us the ______ and be doing.
11. Lost time is ______ found again.
12. ______ they
business! Let that not drive thee.
13. ______ is a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
14. Learning is to the studious, and ______ to the careful.
15. ______ not time, for that's the stuff life's made of.
16. A ______ saved is a penny earned.
17. He that lives on ______ will die fasting.
18. Trouble springs from ______, and grievous toil from needless ease.
19. ______ travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
20. Not to ______ workmen is to leave them your purse open.
21. By diligence and patience the ______ ate in two the cable.
22. Constant dropping wears ______ stones.
23. One today is worth two ______.
24. Help, ______! for I have no lands.
