“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”