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Benjamin Franklin: Be at war...

Benjamin Franklin: Be at war...

Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better...

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Benjamin Franklin: Do good to...

Benjamin Franklin: Do good to...

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: Don't judge men's...

Benjamin Franklin: Don't judge men's...

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: Most fools think...

Benjamin Franklin: Most fools think...

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Benjamin Franklin: He does not...

Benjamin Franklin: He does not...

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: It is the...

Benjamin Franklin: It is the...

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine...

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Benjamin Franklin: Many people die...

Benjamin Franklin: Many people die...

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

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Benjamin Franklin: If time be...

Benjamin Franklin: If time be...

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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G C Lichtenberg: Delight at having...

G C Lichtenberg: Delight at having...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it...

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G C Lichtenberg: Prejudices are so...

G C Lichtenberg: Prejudices are so...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many...

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G C Lichtenberg: With prophecies the...

G C Lichtenberg: With prophecies the...

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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Benjamin Franklin: Necessity never made...

Benjamin Franklin: Necessity never made...

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack, entry for Apr...

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Shelley Winters: In Hollywood, all...

Shelley Winters: In Hollywood, all...

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes...

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Blind Lemon Johnson: Woman rocks the...

Blind Lemon Johnson: Woman rocks the...

Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home
Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks...

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Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Source: In Words of Love, by...

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Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Elayne Boosler: When the sun...

Elayne Boosler: When the sun...

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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George Carlin: Frisbeetarianism is the...

George Carlin: Frisbeetarianism is the...

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets...

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I want death...

I want death...

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Source: ``To the Reader,'' in...

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A good listener...

A good listener...

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Source: x
-- Kin...

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