Benjamin Franklin

"Lost time is never found again."

"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."

"When in doubt, don't."

"I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet."

"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."

"You may delay, but time will not."

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

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

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

"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."

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

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

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

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

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

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

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

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

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

"Fatigue is the best pillow."

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

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

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

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"Honesty is the best policy."

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

"Hunger is the best pickle."

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

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

"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."

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

"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."

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

"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

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

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

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

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

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

"Nine men in ten are would be suicides."

"Remember that credit is money."

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."

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