Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.