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.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on...

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on...

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to...

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to...

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

Education begins with life.

Education begins with life.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Industry need not wish.

Industry need not wish.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

There is no little enemy

There is no little enemy

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty,...

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty,...

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Well done is better than well said.

Well done is better than well said.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Without justice, courage is weak.

Without justice, courage is weak.

He that can have Patience, can have what he will

He that can have Patience, can have what he will

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the...

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the...

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.