If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Electricity experiments, founding father
From a collection of lesser-known wisdom
Unknown, likely 18th century
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"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Strange & Unusual"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Controversial"scarcely worth a FART-HING"
Humorous"After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even h…"
Humorous"Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones."
Philosophical