« All Long Quotes · Benjamin Franklin's Page
Long Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the…
- You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,…
- I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs…
- But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage…
- That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally…
- Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
- A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
- I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
- Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
- You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
- God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.
- Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
- For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects,…
- All would live long, but none would be old.
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
- If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
- Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in…
- Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a doing
More Long Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe