Expensive Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievious ones.”

— Benjamin Franklin

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When…

— Benjamin Franklin

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds…

— Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

— Benjamin Franklin

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference…

— Gilbert Blane

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

— Alexander Pope

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

— Suetonius

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain…

— Hippocrates

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

— Obert Skye