William Penn quote: "The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer."

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN

For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN

Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.
WILLIAM PENN

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
WILLIAM PENN

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
WILLIAM PENN

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patient...
WILLIAM PENN

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be f...
WILLIAM PENN

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason ...
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves...
WILLIAM PENN

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more ...
WILLIAM PENN

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
WILLIAM PENN

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
WILLIAM PENN

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
WILLIAM PENN

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers mo...
WILLIAM PENN

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and u...
WILLIAM PENN

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
WILLIAM PENN

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
WILLIAM PENN

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
WILLIAM PENN

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
WILLIAM PENN

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal l...
WILLIAM PENN

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
WILLIAM PENN

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that...
WILLIAM PENN

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
WILLIAM PENN

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
WILLIAM PENN

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
WILLIAM PENN

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
WILLIAM PENN

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
WILLIAM PENN

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
WILLIAM PENN

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the e...
WILLIAM PENN

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and...
WILLIAM PENN

The public must and will be served.
WILLIAM PENN

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to ...
WILLIAM PENN

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
WILLIAM PENN

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
WILLIAM PENN

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
WILLIAM PENN

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
WILLIAM PENN

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reaso...
WILLIAM PENN

He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
WILLIAM PENN

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defe...
WILLIAM PENN

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it
WILLIAM PENN

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the e...
WILLIAM PENN

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
WILLIAM PENN

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ost...
WILLIAM PENN

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
WILLIAM PENN

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
WILLIAM PENN

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defen...
WILLIAM PENN

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
WILLIAM PENN

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
WILLIAM PENN

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
WILLIAM PENN

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
WILLIAM PENN

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
WILLIAM PENN

Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
WILLIAM PENN

To delay justice, is injustice.
WILLIAM PENN

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
WILLIAM PENN

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . ...
WILLIAM PENN

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell
WILLIAM PENN

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
WILLIAM PENN

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
WILLIAM PENN

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rule...
WILLIAM PENN

Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
WILLIAM PENN

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.
WILLIAM PENN

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
WILLIAM PENN

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
WILLIAM PENN

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any
WILLIAM PENN

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown
WILLIAM PENN

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
WILLIAM PENN

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's
WILLIAM PENN

Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, y...
WILLIAM PENN

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
WILLIAM PENN

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers mo...
WILLIAM PENN

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.
WILLIAM PENN

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
WILLIAM PENN

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
WILLIAM PENN

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason
WILLIAM PENN

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise
WILLIAM PENN

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . ...
WILLIAM PENN

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn ...
WILLIAM PENN

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the...
WILLIAM PENN

God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
WILLIAM PENN

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side...
WILLIAM PENN

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when D...
WILLIAM PENN

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and priv...
WILLIAM PENN

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being w...
WILLIAM PENN

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth ...
WILLIAM PENN

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
WILLIAM PENN

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform
WILLIAM PENN

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided
WILLIAM PENN

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.
WILLIAM PENN

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a M...
WILLIAM PENN

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations
WILLIAM PENN

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
WILLIAM PENN

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants
WILLIAM PENN

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule
WILLIAM PENN

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
WILLIAM PENN

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites...
WILLIAM PENN

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, an...
WILLIAM PENN

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good ...
WILLIAM PENN

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
WILLIAM PENN

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not f...
WILLIAM PENN

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and u...
WILLIAM PENN

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patient...
WILLIAM PENN

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. Their praise is costly, designing to get by thos...
WILLIAM PENN

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else bu...
WILLIAM PENN

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.
WILLIAM PENN

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
WILLIAM PENN

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
WILLIAM PENN

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
WILLIAM PENN

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die
WILLIAM PENN

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.
WILLIAM PENN

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd
WILLIAM PENN

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast
WILLIAM PENN

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
WILLIAM PENN

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it
WILLIAM PENN

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.
WILLIAM PENN

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.
WILLIAM PENN

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
WILLIAM PENN

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend
WILLIAM PENN

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children
WILLIAM PENN

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious
WILLIAM PENN

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown
WILLIAM PENN

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never g...
WILLIAM PENN

He that lives to forever, never fears dying
WILLIAM PENN

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
WILLIAM PENN

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune
WILLIAM PENN

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
WILLIAM PENN

True silence is the rest of the mind, it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and...
WILLIAM PENN

Truth often suffers more from the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant...
WILLIAM PENN

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves
WILLIAM PENN

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our...
WILLIAM PENN

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely
WILLIAM PENN

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prest...
WILLIAM PENN

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment an...
WILLIAM PENN

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to lear...
WILLIAM PENN

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to ...
WILLIAM PENN

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not con...
WILLIAM PENN

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, l...
WILLIAM PENN

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals
WILLIAM PENN

there is an old saying that when you whistle the devil dances. So why are you standing still?
WILLIAM PENN

Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it
WILLIAM PENN PATRICK

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life tr...
WILLIAM PENN ADAIR ROGERS

Photographing a cake can be art.
IRVING PENN

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was ...
KAL PENN

My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as mu...
KAL PENN

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the...
KAL PENN

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this wee...
KAL PENN

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
KAL PENN

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a...
KAL PENN

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional polit...
KAL PENN

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

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William Penn

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

William Penn

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