Intelligent Quotes

“For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.”

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“Remember that Time is Money.”

“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

“Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“Little strokes fell great oaks.”

“Hope of gain lessens pain.”

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

“Great estates may venture more; little boats must keep near shore.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

“The man who is good at making an excuse, is seldom good at any thing else.”

“In short, the Way to Wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the Way to Market. It depends chiefly on two Words, Industry and Frugality; i.e. Waste neither Time nor Money, but make the best Use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary Expences excepted) will certainly become Rich.”

“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“Don’t think to hunt two hares with one dog.”

“He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly, need not be rich.”

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“The muses love the morning.”

“Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving, it sets you above him.”

“No gains without pains.”

“If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.”

“Drunkenness, that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

“Let every new year find you a better man.”

“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“It’s common for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one.”

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”

“Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.”

“Observe all men; thyself most.”

“The golden age never was the present age.”

“A light purse is a heavy curse.”

“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.”

“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”

“Beauty and folly are old companions.”

“Drink water; put the money in your pocket, and leave the dry-bellyache in the punch-bowl.”

“He that builds before he counts the cost, acts foolishly; and he that counts before he builds, finds he did not count wisely.”

“Time enough always proves little enough.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.”

“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”

“The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.”

“Nothing so popular as goodness.”

“The bird that sits, is easily shot.”

“The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.”

“’Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”

“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”

“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”

“’Tis a shame that your family is an honor to you! You ought to be an honor to your family.”

“Honor thy father and mother, i.e., live so as to be an honor to them when they are dead.”

“If you’d have a servant that you like, serve yourself.”

“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”

“An hundred thieves cannot strip one naked man, especially if his skin’s off.”

“The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.”

“There was never a good knife made of bad steel.”

“Pardoning the bad, is injuring the good.”

“One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are the more they’re valued.”

“The noblest question in the world is, what good may I do in it?”

“’Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend; but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.”

“The bell calls others to church, but itself never minds the sermon.”

“A full belly makes a dull brain.”

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

“The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasures, and then suffers pains.”

“Buy what thou hast no need of; and e’er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.”

“Sloth (like rust) consumes faster than labor wears. The used key is always bright.”

“Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.”

“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”

“Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

“Do not do that which you would not have known.”

“Fools multiply folly.”

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”

“None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.”

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

“If you have time don’t wait for time.”

“Marry above thy match, and thou'lt get a master.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

“Eat few suppers, and you’ll need few medicines.”

“Approve not of him that commends all you say.”

“’Tis easier to build two chimneys, than maintain one in fuel.”

“No man ever was glorious who was not laborious.”

“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”

“Rather go to bed supperless, than run in debt for a breakfast.”

“For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

“Late children, early orphans.”

“There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with a villian.”

“A good example is the best sermon.”

“Sleep without supping, and you'll rise without owing for it.”

“As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.”

“The proud hate pride—in others.”

“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”

“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”

“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.”

“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”

“Patience in a market, is worth pounds in a year.”

“Half the truth is often a great lie.”

“I have never seen the philosopher’s stone that turns lead into gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a man’s gold into lead.”

“It is better to take many injuries, than to give one.”

“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

“There is no little enemy.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”

“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”

“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”

“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”

“Industry pays debts, despair increases them.”

“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”

“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

“A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.”

“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies, than the fool from his friends.”

“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself.”

“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.”

“He’s a fool that makes his doctor his heir.”

“Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped.”

“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”

“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”

“Well done is twice done.”

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

“Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”

“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.”

“If you want a faithful servant, and one that you like—serve yourself.”

“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”

“If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.”

“Silk and satins and scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire.”

“You will be careful, if you are wise; how you touch men's religion, or credit, or eyes.”

“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”

“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”

“Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her mask.”

“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”

“Haste makes waste.”

“Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.”

“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”

“Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”

“A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.”

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“Without justice courage is weak.”

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”

“Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.”

“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”

“All would live long, but none would be old.”

“Love, cough, and a smoke, can’t well be hid.”

“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors.”

“All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.”

“An innocent plowman is more worthy than a vicious prince.”

“If you want to be wealthy, think of saving as well as of earning.”

“’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”

“Bad gains are truly losses.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”

“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”

“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”

“He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business by night.”

“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”

“A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”

“As pride increases, fortune declines.”

“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.”

“An empty bag cannot stand upright.”

“You may delay, but time will not.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

“A penny saved is a penny earned.d”

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”