Benjamin Franklin

Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

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

The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man young, wealthy and wise.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

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

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

God helps those that help themselves

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

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

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.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Time is money.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Lost time is never found again.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Honesty is the best policy.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

When in doubt, don't.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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?

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.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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.

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.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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

A place for everything, everything in its place.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Well done is better than well said.

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

You may delay, but time will not.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical but it is often true.

Some people die at 25. We just bury them at 75.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.