“A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it”- “A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance”
- “A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.”
- “A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.”
- “A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”
- “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines”
- “A fat kitchen makes a lean will”
- “A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.”
- “A full belly makes a dull brain”
- “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
- “A good example is the best sermon.”
- “A good Lawyer a bad Neighbour.”
- “A good Wife & Health, is a Man's best Wealth.”
- “A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
- “A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.”
- “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
- “A large train makes a light Purse.”
- “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
- “A lie stands on one leg, truth on two”
- “A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.”
- “A light purse is a heavy Curse.”
- “A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches”
- “A little neglect may breed great mischief.”
- “A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost”
- “A little well-gotten will do us more good, Than lordships and scepters by Rapine and Blood.”
- “A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”
- “A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have”
- “A man is not completely born until he be dead.”
- “A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”
- “A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
- “A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”
- “A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.”
- “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
- “A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.”
- “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
- “A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year”
- “A place for everything, everything in its place.”
- “A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees”
- “A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.”
- “A Ship under sail and a big-bellied Woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common”
- “A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”
- “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
- “A small leak can sink a great ship”
- “A soft Tongue may strike hard.”
- “A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
- “A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.”
- “A Traveller should have a hog's nose, deer's legs, and an ass's back”
- “A true friend is the best possession.”
- “A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor.”
- “A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian”
- “A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.”
- “A word to the wise is enough”
- “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
- “Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
- “After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser”
- “After Fish, Milk do not wish.”
- “After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy”
- “Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money for the Time he is like to be kept out of it: therefore”
- “Against Diseases here, the strongest Fence, Is the defensive Virtue, Abstinence.”
- “All blood is alike ancient.”
- “All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
- “All Mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the Good.”
- “All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful”
- “All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.”
- “All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
- “All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
- “Always taking out of the meal - tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom”
- “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.”
- “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 old Man in a House is a good Sign.”
- “An old young man, will be a young old man.”
- “An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.”
- “An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.”
- “And he that pays ready Money, might let that Money out to Use: so that”
- “And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”
- “Anger and Folly walk cheek-by-jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.”
- “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 society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
- “Applause waits on success.”
- “Approve not of him who commends all you say”
- “Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself”
- “As often as we do good, we sacrifice.”
- “As Pride increases, Fortune declines.”
- “As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts”
- “As to his Wife, John minds St. Paul, He's one/ That hath a Wife, and is as if he'd none.”
- “As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.”
- “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.”
- “At the workman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter”
- “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.”
- “Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted”
- “Ay, we must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately”
- “Bargaining has neither friends nor relations”
- “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 in general virtuous, and you will be happy.”
- “Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise”
- “Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.”
- “Be not sick too late, nor well too soon”
- “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
- “Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.”
- “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 studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.”
- “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.”
- “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 him that is slow to anger: He is angry for something, and will not be pleased for nothing.”
- “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
- “Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.”
- “Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
- “Beware of the young doctor and the old barber”
- “Beware the hobby that eats.”
- “Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads”
- “Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
- “Bright as the day and as the morning fair, Such Cloe is, & common as the air.”
- “Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries”
- “By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable”
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
- “By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.”
- “Caesar did not merit the triumphal Car, more than he that conquers himself.”
- “Came you from Court? for in your Mien, A self-important air is seen.”
- “Can grave and formal pass for wise, When Men the solemn Owl despise?”
- “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”
- “Clean your finger before you point at my spots”
- “Consider then, when you are tempted to buy any unnecessary Housholdstuff, or any superfluous thing, whether you will be willing to pay Interest, and Interest upon Interest for it as long as you live; and more if it grows worse by using”
- “Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy”
- “Constant dropping wears away stones”
- “Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.”
- “Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold”
- “Content makes poor men rich; discontent 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.”
- “Deny Self for Self's sake”
- “Diligence is the mother of good luck”
- “Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”
- “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 do that which you would not have known.”
- “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 judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.”
- “Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer”
- “Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.”
- “Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog”
- “Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.”
- “Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.”
- “Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband”
- “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's the stuff life is made of.”
- “Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”
- “Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl”
- “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, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
- “Eat and drink such an exact Quantity as the Constitution of thy Body allows of, in reference to the Services of the Mind.”
- “Eat few Suppers, and you'll need few Medicines.”
- “Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation”
- “Eat to live, not live to eat.”
- “Education begins with life.”
- “Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
- “Energy and persistence alter all things.”
- “Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”
- “Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse”
- “Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.”
- “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 Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.”
- “Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.”
- “Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.”
- “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.”
- “Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.”
- “Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.”
- “Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.”
- “Fish and guests stink in three days”
- “Fish and visitors smell in three days.”
- “Fish and visitors stink after three days.”
- “Fly Pleasures, and they'll follow you.”
- “Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse”
- “Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them”
- “Fools multiply folly”
- “Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it”
- “For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.”
- “For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day”
- “For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent.”
- “for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
- “For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; 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.”
- “Forwarn'd, forearm'd, unless in the case of Cuckolds, who are often forearm'd before warn'd”
- “Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might 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; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.”
- “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.”
- “Get what you can, and what you get hold, 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold”
- “Gifts burst rocks”
- “Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.”
- “God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.”
- “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 them that help themselves.”
- “God helps those who help themselves.”
- “God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.”
- “God works wonders now and then; behold a lawyer, an honest man.”
- “Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that's aground knows where the shoal doth lie”
- “Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.”
- “Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands”
- “Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee.”
- “Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.”
- “Great Beauty, great strength, & great Riches, are really & truly of no great Use; a right Heart exceeds all.”
- “Great spenders are bad lenders.”
- “Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post”
- “Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best”
- “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
- “Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.”
- “Half a truth is often a great lie.”
- “Half wits talk much, but say little.”
- “Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.”
- “Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a doing”
- “Have you somewhat to do to-morrow; do it to-day.”
- “He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.”
- “He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.”
- “He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things”
- “He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others”
- “He may well win the race that runs by himself”
- “He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face”
- “He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if”
- “He that buys by the penny, maintains not only himself, but other people”
- “He that buys upon Credit, pays Interest for what he buys.”
- “He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books”
- “He that can have Patience, can have what he will”
- “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 composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.”
- “He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed”
- “He that drinks fast pays slow”
- “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
- “He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”
- “He that goes far to marry, will either deceive or be deceived”
- “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 hath a Trade, hath an Estate.”
- “He that idly loses 5 s. worth of time, loses 5 s. & might as prudently throw 5 s. in the River.”
- “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”
- “He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich”
- “He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.”
- “He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
- “He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting”
- “He that lives well, is learned enough”
- “He that pays ready Money, escapes or may escape that Charge.”
- “He that possesses any Thing he has bought, pays Interest for the Use of it.”
- “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 resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.”
- “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 sows thorns, should not go barefoot.”
- “He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her”
- “He that speaks much, is much mistaken”
- “He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.”
- “He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.”
- “He that takes a wife, takes care”
- “He that waits upon a fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
- “He that whines for Glass without G/ Take away L and that's he.”
- “He that won't be counseled can't be helped.”
- “He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.”
- “He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees”
- “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 buys had need have 100 Eyes, but one's enough for him that sells the Stuff.”
- “He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.”
- “He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world”
- “He who shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world.”
- “Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.”
- “Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.”
- “Help, Hands; For I have no Lands.”
- “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”
- “Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
- “He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.”
- “He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”
- “Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.”
- “Hope of gain lessens pain.”
- “Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things”
- “Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things”
- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them”
- “Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”
- “Humility makes great men twice honorable”
- “Hunger is the best pickle.”
- “I am lord of myself, accountable to none”
- “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 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 always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.”
- “I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.”
- “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 saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”
- “I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.”
- “I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
- “I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.”
- “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”
- “I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharking and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respecta”
- “Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
- “Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.”
- “Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments”
- “Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues”
- “Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.”
- “If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.”
- “If a man could 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 any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.”
- “If God blesses a Man, his Bitch brings forth Pigs.”
- “If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”
- “If man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles”
- “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
- “If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear”
- “If thou hast wit & learning, add to it Wisdom and Modesty.”
- “If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
- “If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.”
- “If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise”
- “If wind blows on you thro' a hole, Make your will and take care of your soul.”
- “If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will”
- “If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.”
- “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 have time don't wait for time”
- “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone”
- “If you ride a horse, sit close and tight: If you ride a man, sit easy and light”
- “If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.”
- “If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday”
- “If you want something done, ask a busy person.”
- “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 wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear”
- “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
- “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable”
- “If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.”
- “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 know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a- borrowing goes a-sorrowing”
- “If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some”
- “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, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”
- “If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life”
- “If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send”
- “If you'd have your shoes last, put no nails in 'em.”
- “If you'd lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him Money.”
- “Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.”
- “In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private”
- “In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always the e”
- “In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires”
- “In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.”
- “In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.”
- “In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top”
- “In success be moderate”
- “In the affairs of this world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it”
- “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
- “Industry need not wish.”
- “Industry pays Debts, Despair increases them.”
- “Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them”
- “Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
- “Innocence is its own Defense.”
- “Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.”
- “Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?”
- “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 better to take many Injuries than to give one”
- “It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
- “It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
- “It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance”
- “It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
- “It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.”
- “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 is the observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own”
- “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
- “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it”
- “It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”
- “It's common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.”
- “It's the easiest Thing in the World for a Man to deceive himself.”
- “Joke went out, and brought home his fellow, and they two began a quarrel.”
- “Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?”
- “Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming”
- “Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.”
- “Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.”
- “Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”
- “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
- “Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.”
- “Late Children, early Orphans.”
- “Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies, Great ones break thro' before your eyes”
- “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”
- “Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”
- “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 our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.”
- “Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter”
- “Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.”
- “Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt”
- “Let thy Discontents be Secrets.”
- “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 too soon and wise too late”
- “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. Bad Commentators spoil the best of books, So God sends meat (they say) the devil Cooks.”
- “Look before, or you'll find yourself behind”
- “Lost time is never found again.”
- “Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.”
- “Love & lordship hate companions.”
- “Love and lordship hate companions”
- “Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.”
- “Love well, whip well”
- “Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults”
- “Love your neighbour; yet don't pull down your hedge.”
- “Love, Cough, and a Smoke, can't well be hid”
- “Lying rides upon debt's back.”
- “Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.”
- “Make haste slowly.”
- “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 dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.”
- “Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting”
- “Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”
- “Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it”
- “Many men 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.”
- “Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes.”
- “Marry your Son when you will, but your Daughter when you can.”
- “Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense”
- “Men and Melons are hard to know.”
- “Men meet, mountains never.”
- “Men take more pains to mask than to mend.”
- “Mine is better than ours.”
- “Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.”
- “Money and good Manners make the Gentleman.”
- “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.”
- “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 dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of act”
- “Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay great ones - with ingratitude”
- “Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,”
- “Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same”
- “Necessity never made a good bargain”
- “Never confuse motion with action.”
- “Never contradict anybody.”
- “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
- “Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow”
- “Never spare the Parson's wine, nor Baker's Pudding.”
- “Never take a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her in.”
- “Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.”
- “Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!”
- “Nine men in ten are would be suicides.”
- “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 man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.”
- “No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.”
- “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 are deceived but they that confide.”
- “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 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 in life is certain except death and taxes”
- “Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”
- “Nothing preaches better than the act.”
- “Nothing so popular as GOODNESS.”
- “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.”
- “Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.”
- “Observe all men, thyself most.”
- “Observe all men; thy self most.”
- “Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred”
- “Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.”
- “Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.”
- “Old young and old long.”
- “One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
- “One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults”
- “One today is worth two tomorrows.”
- “One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
- “Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep”
- “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
- “Opportunity is the great Bawd.”
- “Originality is the art of concealing your sources”
- “Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes”
- “Our necessities never equal our wants”
- “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.”
- “Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood”
- “Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding”
- “Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.”
- “Pay what you owe, and you'll know what's your own.”
- “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”
- “Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”
- “Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright”
- “Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things”
- “Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous”
- “Pox take you, is no curse to some people.”
- “Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.”
- “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”
- “Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
- “Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.”
- “Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.”
- “Quarrels never could last long, If on one side only lay the wrong.”
- “Rain or Snow, / To Chili go, / You'll find it so,/ For ought we know./Time will show.”
- “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.”
- “Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.”
- “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
- “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
- “Receive before you write, but write before you pay.”
- “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.”
- “Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve”
- “Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind”
- “Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices”
- “Rules of Health and long Life, and to preserve from Malignant Fevers, and Sickness in general.”
- “Rules to find out a fit Measure of Meat and Drink.”
- “Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”
- “Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
- “Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
- “Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicious about them.”
- “Seek Virtue, and, of that possessed, To Providence, resign the rest.”
- “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.”
- “Silks and Satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire”
- “Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful”
- “Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?”
- “Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour”
- “Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion”
- “Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues”
- “Sloth like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright”
- “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy”
- “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”
- “So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.”
- “Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.”
- “Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.”
- “Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.”
- “Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”
- “Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.”
- “Sorrow is dry.”
- “Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.”
- “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.”
- “Squirrel-like she covers her back with her tail.”
- “Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.”
- “Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.”
- “Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.”
- “Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame”
- “Take time for all things great haste makes great waste.”
- “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 me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
- “than that of defrauding the government.”
- “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 ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”
- “The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”
- “The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.”
- “The best is the cheapest.”
- “The best of all medicines is resting and fasting”
- “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 busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.”
- “The church the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.”
- “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
- “The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”
- “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
- “The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.”
- “The discontented man finds no easy chair.”
- “The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
- “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
- “The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.”
- “The Family of Fools is ancient”
- “The favor of the Great is no inheritance.”
- “The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”
- “The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.”
- “The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.”
- “The good Paymaster is Lord of another man's Purse”
- “The good Spinner hath a large Shift.”
- “The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken”
- “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 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 longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.”
- “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?”
- “The magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate.”
- “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 Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts his Sight: What stranger wonders does he write?”
- “The Master-piece of Man, is to live to the purpose”
- “The misers cheese is wholesomest”
- “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 spun too fine.”
- “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 nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.”
- “The noblest question in the world is What Good may I do in it?”
- “The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
- “The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.”
- “The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.”
- “The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat”
- “The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.”
- “The proof of gold is fire...”
- “The rotten Apple spoils his Companion”
- “The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.”
- “The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes.”
- “The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt”
- “The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”
- “The sparks fly in his face.”
- “The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
- “The things which hurt, instruct.”
- “The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch”
- “The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.”
- “The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”
- “The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war.”
- “The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
- “The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.”
- “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 fools so troublesome as those that have wit.”
- “There are no ugly Loves, nor handsome Prisons”
- “There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
- “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 have been as great Souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous”
- “There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him”
- “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 man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.”
- “There never was a good war nor a bad peace.”
- “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
- “There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
- “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 many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies”
- “There's more old Drunkards than old Doctors”
- “There's none deceived but he that trusts”
- “There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged”
- “They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent”
- “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.”
- “Think Cato sees thee.”
- “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.”
- “Thirst after Desert, not Reward.”
- “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 love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
- “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.”
- “Three can keep a secret if two are dead.”
- “Three good meals a day is bad living.”
- “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
- “Three removes are as bad as a fire”
- “Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife”
- “Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.”
- “Time is money.”
- “Timothy was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on.”
- “'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle”
- “'Tis better leave for an enemy at one's death, than beg of a friend in one's life”
- “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 bear other peoples afflictions, every one has courage enough, and to spare.”
- “To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.”
- “To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish”
- “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 discontented man no chair is easy”
- “To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
- “To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell”
- “Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.”
- “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.”
- “Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.”
- “Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many”
- “Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle.”
- “Turn Turk Tim, and renounce thy Faith in Words as well as Actions: Is it worse to follow Mahomet than the Devil?”
- “Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough”
- “Vanity backbites more than Malice.”
- “Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore.”
- “Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.”
- “Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”
- “Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.”
- “Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge”
- “Wars bring scars.”
- “Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.”
- “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 are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.”
- “We may give advice but we cannot give conduct”
- “We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”
- “Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
- “Weighty Questions ask for deliberate Answers”
- “Well done is better than well said.”
- “Well done, is twice done.”
- “Were it offered to my choice, 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 in the first”
- “What has become clear to you since we last met ?”
- “What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.”
- “What is the use of a new-born child?”
- “What maintains one vice, would bring up two children”
- “What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.”
- “What one relishes, nourishes”
- “What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.”
- “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.”
- “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
- “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
- “What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?”
- “What's given shines, What's receiv'd is rusty”
- “What's proper, is becoming: See the Blacksmith with his white Silk Apron!”
- “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 befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”
- “When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell,/ If we were Wax, or Tallow by the Smell./ At a great Pennyworth, pause a while.”
- “When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”
- “When in doubt, don't.”
- “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 'tis fair be sure take your Great coat with you”
- “When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”
- “When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.”
- “When you're finished changing, you're finished.”
- “Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither”
- “Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.”
- “Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;
- “Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage”
- “Where there's no Law, there's no Bread.”
- “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 pleasure gives, Shall joy receive”
- “Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not for receiving. — What? Why; Advice.”
- “Why does the blind man's wife paint herself”
- “Wide will wear, but Narrow will tear.”
- “Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.”
- “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
- “Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”
- “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.”
- “Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.”
- “Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
- “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 justice, courage is weak.”
- “Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great”
- “Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning”
- “Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
- “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 persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
- “Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”
- “Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar”
- “Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
- “Yet, in buying Goods, 'tis best to pay ready Money, because,”
- “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 be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.”
- “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”
- “You will be careful, if you are wise; How you touch Men's Religion, or Credit, or Eyes.”
- “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
- “Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.”
- “...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...”
- “A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.”
- “A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.”
- “A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten thousands are devoured by men”
- “All would live long; but none would be old”
- “An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.”
- “And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”
- “Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
- “Astrologers say, This is a good Day, To make Love in May.”
- “At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter”
- “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.”
- “Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.”
- “Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.”
- “Despair ruins some, presumption many”
- “Dewey felt that since ideals are not perfectly attainable, they may demoralize students who try to measure up to them. The general tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public spirit, fortitude, etc.”
- “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
- “Early morning hath gold in its mouth.”
- “Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”
- “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
- “Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.”
- “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 want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost, Forwant of a rider the battle was lost, For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse.”
- “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 makes a Foe who makes a jest.”
- “He that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive”
- “He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
- “He that rises late must trot all day.”
- “He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night”
- “He that's secure is not safe.”
- “He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.”
- “He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear”
- “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”
- “How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
- “I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has ? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.”
- “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 have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.”
- “If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.”
- “If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
- “If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few”
- “If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.”
- “If you'd have a Servant that you like, serve your self”
- “If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?”
- “It's easy to see, hard to foresee.”
- “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
- “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”
- “Light Gains heavy Purses.”
- “Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard”
- “Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.”
- “Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.”
- “Most fools think they are only ignorant.”
- “My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence”
- “Neither Shame nor Grace yet Bob.”
- “No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.”
- “Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)”
- “One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.”
- “One to-day is worth two to-morrows.”
- “Proclaim not all thou knowest”
- “Rob not for burnt offerings.”
- “She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail”
- “Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”
- “Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other”
- “The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue”
- “The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands”
- “The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”
- “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 Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense”
- “The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.”
- “There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house”
- “They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.”
- “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security”
- “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.”
- “To all apparent Beauties blind. Each Blemish strikes an envious Mind.”
- “To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light”
- “To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.”
- “Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.”
- “Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask”
- “Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”
- “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
- “We must hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately”
- “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
- “What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite”
- “What you would seem to be, be really.”
- “When knaves fall out, honest men get their goods; when priests dispute, we come at the truth”
- “Where liberty is, there is my country”
- “Where yet was ever found the Mother, Who'd change her booby for another?”
- “Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”
- “Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad Habits. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.”
- “Who knows a fool, must know his brother; For one will recommend another.”
- “Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”
- “Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.”
- “You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns”
- Benjamin Franklin
