Quotes 221 till 240 of 345.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.
Well, this is the time for bold measures.PENN Address (2004) -
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
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Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
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