Benjamin Franklin
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.Collection: Wisdom
You may delay, but time will not.Collection: Time
Time is money.Collection: Time
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.Collection: Knowledge
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.Collection: God
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.Collection: Work
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.Collection: Time
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.Collection: Nature
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.Collection: Business
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.Collection: Life
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Collection: Food
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.Collection: Good
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 but found to be otherwise.Collection: Change
Hunger is the best pickle.Collection: Best
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.Collection: Courage
The doors of wisdom are never shut.Collection: Wisdom
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.Collection: Life
Half a truth is often a great lie.Collection: Great
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.Collection: Love
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.Collection: Health
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.Collection: Faith
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Collection: Happiness
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.Collection: Fear
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.Collection: Nature
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.Collection: Men
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.Collection: Friendship
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.Collection: Time
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.Collection: War
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.Collection: Hope
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.Collection: Work
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.Collection: Men
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.Collection: Respect
Remember that credit is money.Collection: Money
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.Collection: Best
Necessity never made a good bargain.Collection: Good
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.Collection: Time
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.Collection: War
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.Collection: Business
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.Collection: Age
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.Collection: Learning
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.Collection: Happiness
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.Collection: Government
Diligence is the mother of good luck.Collection: Good
A penny saved is a penny earned.Collection: Money
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.Collection: Money
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.Collection: Money
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 the same time truly virtuous.Collection: Great
Applause waits on success.Collection: Success
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.Collection: Anger