The doors of wisdom are never shut. Votes: 10
Half a truth is often a great lie. Votes: 6
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Votes: 0
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. Votes: 0
God helps those who help themselves. Votes: 0
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. Votes: 0
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Votes: 0
Beauty and folly are old companions. Votes: 0
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Votes: 0
Well done is better than well said. Votes: 0
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole. Votes: 0
Applause waits on success. Votes: 0
You may delay, but time will not. Votes: 0
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Votes: 0
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. Votes: 0
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. Votes: 0
Remember that credit is money. Votes: 0
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Votes: 0
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. Votes: 0
Do not fear mistakes. Votes: 0
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night Votes: 0
A good example is the best sermon. Votes: 0
Fatigue is the best pillow. Votes: 0
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist. Votes: 0
Lost time is never found again. Votes: 0
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. Votes: 0
A friend in need is a friend indeed! Votes: 0
God helps them that help themselves. Votes: 0
Beer is proof that God loves us. Votes: 0
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. Votes: 0
There is no good war or bad peace Votes: 0
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. Votes: 0
Those things that hurt, instruct. Votes: 0
Take time for all things. Votes: 0
Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. Votes: 0
Beware the hobby that eats. Votes: 0
Honesty is the best policy. Votes: 0
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Votes: 0
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. Votes: 0
A fat kitchin, a lean Will. Votes: 0
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Votes: 0
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. Votes: 0
Men and Melons are hard to know. Votes: 0
Handle your tools without mittens. Votes: 0
A penny saved is a penny earned. Votes: 0
Practice makes perfect. Votes: 0
Hunger is the best pickle. Votes: 0
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords. Votes: 0
Reckless haste makes poor speed. Votes: 0
Reckless youth makes rueful age. Votes: 0
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. Votes: 0
A Republic, if you can keep it. Votes: 0
No nation was ever ruined by trade. Votes: 0
The Family of Fools is ancient Votes: 0
Deny Self for Self's sake Votes: 0
Three removes are as bad as a fire Votes: 0
Applause waits on success Votes: 0
One today is worth two tomorrows. Votes: 0
Games lubricate the body and mind. Votes: 0
He that's secure is not safe. Votes: 0
Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest. Votes: 0
Don't cry over spilled milk Votes: 0
Little strokes fell great oaks. Votes: 0
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. Votes: 0
Observe all men, thyself most. Votes: 0
Time is money. Votes: 0
Time is money, be a better you. Votes: 0
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. Votes: 0
Venison and venery defeated me. Votes: 0
A penny saved is two pence clear. Votes: 0
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. Votes: 0
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. Votes: 0
No gains without pains. Votes: 0
There's no gain, without pain. Votes: 0
Mine is better than ours. Votes: 0
Necessity never made a good bargain. Votes: 0
Never confuse motion with action. Votes: 0
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Votes: 0
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. Votes: 0
The cat in gloves catches no mice. Votes: 0
Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you. Votes: 0
Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins. Votes: 0
Eat to live, don't live to eat. Votes: 0
What can laws do without morals? Votes: 0
He that cannot obey, cannot command. Votes: 0
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Votes: 0
The best is the cheapest. Votes: 0
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. Votes: 0
Forewarn'd, forearm'd. Votes: 0
Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Votes: 0
Speak little, do much. Votes: 0
What good shall I do this day? Votes: 0
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger. Votes: 0
Lying rides upon debt's back. Votes: 0
Without justice, courage is weak. Votes: 0
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. Votes: 0
The proud hate pride in others. Votes: 0
What I am to be, I am now becoming. Votes: 0
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. Votes: 0
That which hurts, also instructs. Votes: 0
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee. Votes: 0
He that drinks fast, pays slow. Votes: 0
The things which hurt, instruct. Votes: 0
The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. Votes: 0
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. Votes: 0
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. Votes: 0
whatever you become be good at it Votes: 0
Half-wits talk much, but say little. Votes: 0
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking? Votes: 0
Let thy discontents be thy secrets Votes: 0
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. Votes: 0
Read much, but not too many books. Votes: 0
The proof of gold is fire... Votes: 0
Laws without morals are in vain. Votes: 0
Let the experiment be made. Votes: 0
Little boats should keep near shore Votes: 0
What one relishes, nourishes. Votes: 0
Better slip with foot than tongue. Votes: 0
Opportunity is the great bawd. Votes: 0
Time is the stuff life is made of. Votes: 0
A dying man can do nothing easy. Votes: 0
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just. Votes: 0
Love well, whip well. Votes: 0
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. Votes: 0
He that takes a wife, takes care Votes: 0
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. Votes: 0
Those who are fear'd, are hated. Votes: 0
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. Votes: 0
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. Votes: 0
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. Votes: 0
Man is a tool-making animal Votes: 0
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. Votes: 0
The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk. Votes: 0
Families ought to be noisy. Votes: 0
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. Votes: 0
Constant dropping wears away stones Votes: 0
There is no little enemy Votes: 0
Force shites upon Reason's Back. Votes: 0
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen. Votes: 0
Hope of gain lessens pain. Votes: 0
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. Votes: 0
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. Votes: 0
Lost time can never be found again Votes: 0
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith... Votes: 0
Getting it done is my reward. Votes: 0
The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off. Votes: 0
Be ashamed to catch yourself idle. Votes: 0
The misers cheese is wholesomest Votes: 0
The States acceded to the Union. Votes: 0
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults. Votes: 0
Innocence is its own defense. Votes: 0
Let thy vices die before thee. Votes: 0
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Votes: 0
Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days. Votes: 0
Death takes no bribes. Votes: 0
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. Votes: 0
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' Votes: 0
I am in the prime of senility. Votes: 0
All cats are gray in the dark. Votes: 0
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. Votes: 0
Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests. Votes: 0
In success be moderate. Votes: 0
Never contradict anybody. Votes: 0
Display is as false as it is costly. Votes: 0
Do not let fancy outrun your means. Votes: 0
Stand firm, don't flutter! Votes: 0
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. Votes: 0
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. Votes: 0
At a great pennyworth pause a while. Votes: 0
Great spenders are bad lenders. Votes: 0
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them. Votes: 0
Out of adversity comes opportunity. Votes: 0
Bad gains are true losses. Votes: 0
Little leaks sink the ship. Votes: 0
The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors. Votes: 0
When you taste honey, remember gall. Votes: 0
Do well by doing good. Votes: 0
What's a Sun-Dial in the shade? Votes: 0
He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose. Votes: 0
Trouble Springs From Idleness. Votes: 0
A light purse is a heavy curse. Votes: 0
All cats look gray in the dark. Votes: 0
Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty? Votes: 0
There is no gains without pain. Votes: 0
Life is a kind of chess. Votes: 0
Success is the residue of planning. Votes: 0
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. Votes: 0
Great talkers, little doers. Votes: 0
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold. Votes: 0
Great talkers are little doers. Votes: 0
There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work. Votes: 0
Praise little, dispraise less. Votes: 0
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Votes: 0
Necessity is our quickest excuse. Votes: 0
When in doubt, don't. Votes: 0
Industry need not wish. Votes: 0
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. Votes: 0
Hunger never saw bad bread. Votes: 0
In the dark, all cats are grey. Votes: 0
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. Votes: 0
Success has ruin'd many a man. Votes: 0
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit. Votes: 0
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. Votes: 0
He that's content hath enough. Votes: 0
Success has ruined many a man. Votes: 0
The used key is always bright. Votes: 0
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. Votes: 0