It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan