Benjamin Franklin

“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”

“Games lubricate the body and the mind.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

“He that won't be counseled can't be helped.”

“God helps those who help themselves.”

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.”

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”

“Hunger is the best pickle.”

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

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”