"Never take a wife till thou hast..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.”

“There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.”

“A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”

“When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.”

“I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.”

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

“Handle your tools without mittens.”