Benjamin Franklin

“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”

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

“Hunger is the best pickle.”

“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

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

“Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

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

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

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

“Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.”

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

“As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”

“God helps those who help themselves.”

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

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

“Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”

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

“Beauty and folly are old companions.”