Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.

When in doubt tell the truth.