Intelligent Quotes

“Remember that Time is Money.”

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

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

“Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”

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

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

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

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

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“The muses love the morning.”

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

“Little strokes fell great oaks.”

“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.”

“Hope of gain lessens pain.”

“No gains without pains.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.”

“Beauty and folly are old companions.”

“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Bad gains are truly losses.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Lost time is never found again.”

“Late children, early orphans.”

“As pride increases, fortune declines.”

“A light purse is a heavy curse.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”

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

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

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

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

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

“A full belly makes a dull brain.”

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

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

“An empty bag cannot stand upright.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Fools multiply folly.”

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

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

“Haste makes waste.”

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

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

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

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

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

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

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

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

“Industry pays debts, despair increases them.”

“You may delay, but time will not.”

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

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

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

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

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

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

“Half the truth is often a great lie.”

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

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

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

“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”

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

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

“A good example is the best sermon.”

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

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

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

“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.”

“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.”

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

“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”

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

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

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

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

“’Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”

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

“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”

“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”

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

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

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

“The proud hate pride—in others.”

“Nothing so popular as goodness.”

“The golden age never was the present age.”

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

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

“Well done is twice done.”

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

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

“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”

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

“Pardoning the bad, is injuring the good.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

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

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.”

“The bird that sits, is easily shot.”

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

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

“Time enough always proves little enough.”

“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Without justice courage is weak.”

“Observe all men; thyself most.”

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

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

“There is no little enemy.”

“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.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

“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.”

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

“A penny saved is a penny earned.d”