If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius