A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

George Ryan

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

George Carlin

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Bob Moorehead

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

Joseph Sobran

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

Charles Caleb Colton

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.

Gene Weingarten

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Katharine Anthony

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

Virginia Woolf

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Edward Abbey

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Anna Olson

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

Walter Savage Landor

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Benjamin Franklin

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