Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
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.
I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.
Well done is better than well said.
You may delay, but time will not.