Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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

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

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

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

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.