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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.  
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.  
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the ed...  
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as...  
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.  
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be...  
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.  
A penny saved is a penny earned.  
A place for everything, everything in its place.  
A small leak can sink a great ship  
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.  
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.  
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the p...  
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, t...  
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion...  
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortun...  
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.  
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with tr...  
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on...  
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed...  
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little secur...  
Applause waits on success.  
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every i...  
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at for...  
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every...  
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; e...  
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.  
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industriou...  
Beauty and folly are old companions.  
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.  
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.  
Beware the hobby that eats.  
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessi...  
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.  
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.  
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.  
Creditors have better memories than debtors.  
Diligence is the mother of good luck.  
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.  
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep ...  
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.  
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.  
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff ...  
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of...  
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.  
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.  
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.  
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.   Peace
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.  
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.   Experience
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obli...  
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the ...  
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense ...  
Games lubricate the body and the mind.  
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.  
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.  
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.  
Half a truth is often a great lie.  
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.  
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.  
He that can have patience can have what he will.  
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.  
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, ...  
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspect...   Business
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.  
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe ...  
He that rises late must trot all day.  
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...   Peace
He that's secure is not safe.  
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.  
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.  
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medic...  
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.  
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the...  
Honesty is the best policy.  
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis eas...   Religion
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune...  
Hunger is the best pickle.  
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. Ho...  
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought ...  
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.  
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We ...  
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.  
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I m...  
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning...  
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I...  
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.  
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 s...  
If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order ...  
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.  
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the g...  
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.  
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's...  
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.  
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve you...  
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 dead, either write so...  
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten...  
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as m...  
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the w...  
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxe...  
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.   Business
Industry need not wish.  
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I p...  
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.  
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those tha...  
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence o...  
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would wa...  
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is ...  
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.  
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.   Government
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.  
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the dilig...  
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move ...  
Let thy discontents be thy secrets.  
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.  
Lost time is never found again.  
Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except posse...  
Lying rides upon debt's back.  
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It i...  
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling him...  
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.  
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are sevent...  
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which y...  
Mine is better than ours.  
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its n...  
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the...  
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay gre...  
Necessity never made a good bargain.  
Never confuse motion with action.  
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.  
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.  
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.  
Observe all men, thyself most.  
One today is worth two tomorrows.  
Our necessities never equal our wants.  
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.  
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.  
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.  
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far m...  
Remember that credit is money.  
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.  
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.  
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.  
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He th...  
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key...  
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business;...  
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.  
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.  
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.  
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.  
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You ...  
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to purs...  
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and e...  
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 ignoran...  
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.  
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.  
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to...  
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his...  
The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned...  
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he e...  
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.  
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit o...  
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.  
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready ...  
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know o...  
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more e...  
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly ...  
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.  
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary s...  
They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety...  
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, de...  
Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary ...  
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.  
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generall...  
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little tempora...  
Three can keep a secret if two are dead.  
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead  
Time is money.  
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors no...  
To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish.  
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.  
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.  
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.  
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains...  
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.  
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our poli...  
We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately.  
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all ha...  
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.  
Well done is better than well said.  
What has become clear to you since we last met?  
What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?  
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.  
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.  
When in doubt, don't.  
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves...  
When you're finished changing, you're finished.  
Where liberty is, there is my country.  
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.  
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marria...  
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?  
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.  
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.  
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that go...  
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.  
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.  
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 di...  
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.  
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?  
You may delay, but time will not.   Time
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains afte...