- The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
- He is not well-bred, that cannot bear ill-breeding in others.
- You may talk too much on the best of subjects.
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- All would live long, but none would be old.
- One today is worth two tomorrows.
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
- I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
- If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
- 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.
Benjamin Franklin
