Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What’s a sundial in the shade?
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
It’s better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
… a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work….
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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.
If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
…as I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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 misery from their future and crimes from society.
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
If you will not hear reason, she’ll rap your knuckles.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
… I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro’ fear of being thought to have but little.
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
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 they were previously unsusceptible.
At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
Teach your child to hold his tongue He’ll learn fast enough to speak.
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.
Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.
Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.
If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
We must all hang together else we shalFall hang separately.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain errors of the first.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?
Where there’s marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.
Let they child’s first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
Does’t thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. … For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.
If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.
An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
I’d rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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 look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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.’
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.