Benjamin Franklin
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.Collection: Easter
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.Collection: Alone
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Collection: Finance
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.Collection: Finance
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.Collection: Love
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.Collection: Chance
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.Collection: Peace
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.Collection: Marriage
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.Collection: Good
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.Collection: Good
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.Collection: Food
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.Collection: Time
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.Collection: God
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.Collection: Wisdom
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.Collection: Family
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.Collection: New
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.Collection: Morning
Well done is better than well said.Collection: Motivational
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.Collection: Money
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Collection: Education
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'Collection: Knowledge
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.Collection: Religion
One today is worth two tomorrows.Collection: Inspirational
Beauty and folly are old companions.Collection: Beauty
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.Collection: Great
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.Collection: Work
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.Collection: Death
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.Collection: Great
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.Collection: Marriage
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.Collection: Good
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.Collection: Art
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.Collection: Knowledge
He that can have patience can have what he will.Collection: Patience
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.Collection: Faith
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.Collection: Motivational
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Collection: Experience
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.Collection: Business
Beware the hobby that eats.Collection: Food
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.Collection: Good
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Collection: Good
Observe all men, thyself most.Collection: Men
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.Collection: God
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.Collection: Money
Honesty is the best policy.Collection: Best
When in doubt, don't.Collection: Wisdom
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.Collection: Peace
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.Collection: Peace
A place for everything, everything in its place.Collection: Inspirational
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.Collection: Age
Lost time is never found again.Collection: Time