Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Lost time is never found again.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
When in doubt, don't.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Time is money.
Honesty is the best policy.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
You may delay, but time will not.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
