May Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

— Benjamin Franklin

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

— Benjamin Franklin

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

— Benjamin Franklin

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

— Benjamin Franklin

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

— Benjamin Franklin

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build…

— Benjamin Franklin

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

— Benjamin Franklin

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

— Benjamin Franklin

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is…

— Benjamin Franklin

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in…

— Benjamin Franklin

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two…

— Benjamin Franklin

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would…

— Benjamin Franklin

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to…

— Benjamin Franklin

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If…

— Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do -…

— Benjamin Franklin

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding…

— Benjamin Franklin

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General…

— Benjamin Franklin

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man…

— Benjamin Franklin

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully…

— Benjamin Franklin

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your…

— Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

— Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

— Benjamin Franklin

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

— Benjamin Franklin

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

— Benjamin Franklin

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

— Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

— Benjamin Franklin