Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin 
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
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