Benjamin Franklin
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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…
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which…
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what…
So convienent 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.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
Well done is better than well said.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Time is money.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
You may delay, but time will not.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at…
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Never confuse motion with action.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please.
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right…
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Lost time is never found again.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Half a truth is often a great lie.