Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good Fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow

An empty Bag cannot stand upright.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

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

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

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security

Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Ay, we must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately

“Remember, time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides.”

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

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

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?

Better slip with foot than tongue

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

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

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

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Changing Countries or Beds, cures neither a bad Manager, nor a Fever.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us

Constant dropping wears away stones

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times

Death takes no bribes.

Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

Deny Self for Self's sake

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Diligence is the mother of good luck

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

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

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog

Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.

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 the stuff life is made of.

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

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

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

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

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

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

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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.

Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Energy and persistence alter all things.

Energy and persistence conquer all thing.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

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

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

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.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Gifts burst rocks

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."

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

God helps those who help themselves.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.

Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post

Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good Fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

He makes a Foe who makes a jest.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

He that can travel well afoot, keeps a good horse

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

He that drinks fast pays slow

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

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He that has neither fools, whores nor beggars among his kindred, is the son of a thunder-gust

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged

He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

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

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

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

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stands a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure, too.

He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot

He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money

He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.

He that takes a wife, takes care

He that waits upon Fortune is never sure of a dinner.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

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

He that's secure is not safe.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

He who shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Here comes Courage! that seized the lion absent, and run away from the present mouse

Here comes Glib-tongue: who can out-flatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things

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

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts!
O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? A new member added to their happy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God -- when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain rather than pleasure -- instead of an aid, become an incumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves prudently choose a partial death. In some cases a mangled painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off -- He who plucks out a tooth, parts with it freely since the pain goes with it, and he that quits the whole body, parts at once with all pains and possibilities of pains and diseases it was liable to, or capable of making him suffer.
Our friend and we are invited abroad on a party of pleasure -- that is to last forever -- His chair was first ready and he is gone before us -- we could not all conveniently start together, and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and we know where to find him.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

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 wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few

If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday

If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself

If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.

If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If you would persuade, speak of interest, not reason.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.

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

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

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.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make Fortune yield.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox

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

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

It's common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming

Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

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

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

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

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Let thy vices die before thee.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death

Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.

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

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

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Little boats should keep near shore

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind

Lost time is never found again.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults

Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for Punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

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

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

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones ? with ingratitude.

Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Never confuse motion with action.

Never contradict anybody.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her in.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful Friend

No gains without pains.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

No Wood without Bark.

No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing

Nor Eye in a letter, nor Hand in a purse, nor Ear in the secret of another

Not to oversee workmen, is to leave them your purse open

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)

Nothing but Money,Is sweeter than Honey

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.

Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Proclaim not all thou knowest

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Read much, but not many books.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

Remember that credit is money

Remember that time is money.

Remember, that time is money.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail

Silks and Satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Sorrow is dry.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a Sting.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar

Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other

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

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

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

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

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The Family of Fools is ancient

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart

The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereafter.

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk

The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.

The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

The Master-piece of Man, is to live to the purpose

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.

The sparks fly in his face.

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

The things which hurt, instruct.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

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

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep

There are lazy Minds as well as lazy Bodies.

There are no gains without pains.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

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

There is no little enemy

There is no little enemy.

There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

There was never a good war or a bad peace.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies

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

They that study much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their Digestion being not so good.

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

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Those who pay for what they buy upon Credit, pay their Share of this Advance.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase 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.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

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

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

Three removes are as bad as a fire

Time is money.

Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an injury.

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

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.

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Too much plenty makes mouth dainty

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest

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

Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Trouble springs from idleness.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acqu

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct

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

We must hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately

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

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Well done is better than well said.

What is the use of a new-born child?

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.

What one relishes, nourishes

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

When 'tis fair be sure take your Great coat with you

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue

When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support, itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its

When in doubt, don't.

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

When religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people about their victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either about them

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.

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

Where liberty is, there is my country

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

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

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

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

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

Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the

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

Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.

Without justice courage is weak.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.

Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

You may delay, but time will not.

You may talk too much on the best of subjects.

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be