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: Self Deprecating Quotes

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women,...

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women,...

He that's secure is not safe.

He that's secure is not safe.

Mine is better than ours.

Mine is better than ours.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

The Family of Fools is ancient

The Family of Fools is ancient

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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

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

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Proclaim not all thou knowest

Proclaim not all thou knowest

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

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

Than that of defrauding the government.

Than that of defrauding the government.

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,...

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Deny Self for Self's sake

Deny Self for Self's sake

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take...

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take...

A small leak can sink a great ship.

A small leak can sink a great ship.