Benjamin Franklin May Quotations

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

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

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

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

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

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

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

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

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

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

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

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

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

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 more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

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

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

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

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 by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.