Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are indeed very heavy - <br /> We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. <br /> Three times as much by our Pride. <br /> And four times as much by our Folly.

Those who laugh often never grow old.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their turns been persecutors and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practised it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both there (England) and New England.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that \'the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.\'

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.

Virtues, of ...<br />Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Virtues, of ...<br />Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Praise little, dispraise less.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

A true friend is the greatest possesion.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

No gains without pains.

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.