Wit And Wisdom
Benjamin Franklin
He has changed his one-eyed horse for a blind one.
Suspicion may be no fault, But showing it may be a great one.
Great Beauty, great strength, and great riches, Are really and truly of no great use; A light heart exceeds all.
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Since thou art not sure of a minute, Throw away not an hour.
In other men we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and blemish find; To our own stronger errors blind.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, But the mouth of a wiseman is in his heart.
Visits should be short like a winter's day, Lest you're too troublesome hasten away.
When there's marriage without love, There will be love without marriage.
He does not possess wealth, it posses him.
If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise.
Don't throw stones at your neighbors, If your own windows are glass.
Memory is the treasury & guardian of all things.
Cicero (80 B.C.)