Benjamin Franklin Certain Quotations

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.