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May Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave…
- Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow…
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for…
- The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
- We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
- A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
- So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry…
- To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must…
- In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no…
- Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of…
- There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
- Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
- By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged…
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but…
- Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
- Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
- I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or…
- A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
- If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle