Benjamin Franklin

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.”

“He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.”

“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”

“Never confuse motion with action.”

“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...”

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

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

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”

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

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

“Remember that credit is money.”

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

“Danger is sauce for prayers.”

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

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

“Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”