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Colonial America62 quotes
Remember that Time is Money. — Benjamin Franklin · 1748Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736Early to Bed and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Benjamin Franklin · 1735Fish and Visitors stink after three days. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736Haste makes Waste. — Benjamin Franklin · 1753Little strokes fell great Oaks. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750All 62 quotes →Classical antiquity12 quotes
One swallow does not make a spring. — Aristotle · 322 BCThe traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face. — JuvenalDripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use. — Ovid · 18If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca · 65Bronze is a mirror of the face, wine of the mind. — AeschylusLeave no stone unturned. — Euripides · 430 BCAll 12 quotes →The Renaissance12 quotes
All rising to great place is by a winding stair. — Francis Bacon · 1625The apparel oft proclaims the man. — William Shakespeare · 1616Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor. — William Shakespeare · 1606All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare · 1598When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions. — William Shakespeare · 1616Age, that Age appeared
to be best in four things: Old
Wood best to burn, Old Wine to drink, Old
Friends to trust, and old Authors to read. — Francis Bacon · 1625All 12 quotes →Age of Enlightenment4 quotes
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope · 1711Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. — Adam Smith · 1759There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. — Jonathan Swift · 1738Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764Old Testament Era3 quotes
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes 9:11 · 931 BCPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs 16:18 · 686 BCAs iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. — Proverbs 27:17 · 686 BCEarly Christianity2 quotes
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome · 395A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374New Testament Era2 quotes
The love of money is the root of all evil. — 1st Timothy 6:10 · 64Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — Apostle Paul · 50