Benjamin Franklin
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.Collection: Liberty
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.Collection: Horse
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.Collection: Freedom
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.Collection: Success
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.Collection: Attitude
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.Collection: Positive
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.Collection: Inspirational
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.Collection: Trying
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.Collection: Leadership
Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.Collection: Common Sense
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.Collection: Government
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.Collection: 4th Of July
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.Collection: Funny
If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sunCollection: Inspirational
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.Collection: Inspirational
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.Collection: Funny
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.Collection: Inspirational
He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.Collection: Thrive
Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.Collection: Pennies
Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.Collection: Visitors
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.Collection: Drink
Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.Collection: Bed
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.Collection: Disappointment
Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.Collection: Justice
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.Collection: Mortals
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!Collection: Husband
Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.Collection: Humorous
Never praise your cider or your horseCollection: Horse
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.Collection: Humorous
When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.Collection: Believe
I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?Collection: Looks