Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.