Benjamin Franklin

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

If your head is made of wax, don’t walk in the sun.

Benjamin Franklin

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.

Benjamin Franklin

In a discreet man’s mouth, a public thing is private.

Benjamin Franklin

In all Debates, let Truth be thy Aim, not Victory,

Benjamin Franklin