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By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.
When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.