Benjamin Franklin

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.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

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

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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Imitate, assimilate and innovate.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

That dog don’t hunt.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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