Benjamin Franklin

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You may delay, but time will not.

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

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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

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

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

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

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.