| Quotes |
Topic |
| Gluttony | In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. |
| Government | Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. |
| Guests | Fish and visitors stink after three days. |
| Habit | Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. |
| Health | Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. |
| Health | God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. |
| Heart Quotes | The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin. |
| Hunger | At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. |
| Hunger | He that lives upon hope will die fasting. |
| Idleness | Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. |
| Kitchen | A fat kitchen, a lean will. |
| Labor | He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. |
| Language | The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense. |
| Lawyers | God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. |
| Laziness | Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. |
| Laziness | A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. |
| Leisure | A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. |
| Leisure | Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. |
| Liberty | The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. |
| Liberty | Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
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