He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God – when they...

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given...

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

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.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual...

Lost Time is never found again.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

It’s better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes...

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their...

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Games lubricate the body and mind.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

… I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker

Well done is better than well said.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to...

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The Things which hurt, instruct.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Nine men in ten are suicides.