One Good Husband Is Worth Two Good Wives; for the Scarcer Things Are, the More They're Valued

Ben Franklin

“One good Husband is worth two good Wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.”

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.

“ I don’t want to be the next Oprah Winfrey, I want to be the first ______”

Age

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Pope Paul VI

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Government

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Life

Life gives to the givers and takes from the takers

Rev. Run of Run DMC

“ I don’t want to be the next Oprah Winfrey, I want to be the first ______”

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw