Benjamin Franklin

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. "

"After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. "

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "

"Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. "

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. "

"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. "

"Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none. "

"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. "

"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "

"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. "

"Creditors have better memories than debtors. "

"Diligence is the mother of good luck. "

"Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. "

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. "

"Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. "

"Drive thy business or it will drive thee. "

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. "

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. "

"Energy and persistence conquer all thing. "

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. "

"Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. "

"Fish and visitors smell in three days. "

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. "

"He does not possess wealth it possesses him. "

"He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue. "

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. "

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. "

"He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. "

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting. "

"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. "

"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. "

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade "

"How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. "

"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "

"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. "

"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. "

"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. "

"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. "

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. "

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable. "

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. "

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. "

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. "

"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. "

"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. "

"It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. "

"Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. "

"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. "

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. "

"Lost time is never found again. "

"Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. "

"Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five. "

"Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. "

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. "

"No nation was ever ruined by trade. "

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "

"Remember that time is money. "

"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. "

"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful. "

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. "

"The doors of wisdom are never shut. "

"There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. "

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "

"There is no little enemy. "

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace. "

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "

"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. "

"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. "

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. "

"Time is money. "

"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. "

"To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. "

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. "

"Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly. "

"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. "

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. "

"Well done is better than well said. "

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. "

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. "

"Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody. "

"Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody. "

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. "

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well. "

"Without justice courage is weak. "

"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. "

"You may delay, but time will not. "