If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim… If, like those of Rochefoucault,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him "poor Richard," been nothing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s because I’ve been sick and grumpy, but I’ve noticed the huge spate of atheist meetings, both past and upcoming, and… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“It was in his economic interest to keep women servants from marrying or from having sexual relations, because childbearing would interfere with… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“...that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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