Benjamin Franklin
191 quotations
Lying rides upon debt's back.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
There are no gains without pains.
Love well, whip well.
He that can have patience can have what he will.