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A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Related topics: Wisdom
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe
for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel.
Along with all men of good will,
I salute the young state and wish it well.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
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