Benjamin Franklin

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

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

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

Our necessities never equal our wants.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

Remember that credit is money.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Mine is better than ours.

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.