Benjamin Franklin Middle

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin, franklin and/or middle:

    “Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable man in society, “never to contradict any body.””
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “On the Coast of Coromandel
    Where the early pumpkins blow,
    In the middle of the woods
    Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
    Two old chairs, and half a candle,—
    One old jug without a handle,—
    These were all his worldly goods:
    In the middle of the woods,”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)