Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

We should not, however, proceed with the adventure simply because we are wound up and cannot stop.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Have I gone too far?

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.