« All Mischief Quotes · Benjamin Franklin's Page
Mischief Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
- And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from…
- The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
- History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious…
- History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in…
- A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was…
- A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and…
More Mischief Quotes
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. — Jane Austen
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham
- What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors. — Aeschylus
- All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him… — Thomas Jefferson
- I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the… — Alexander Whyte
- To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and… — Dilys Laing
- It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington
- A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. — James Madison
- Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley