Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Animals

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Animal, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.294, Regnery Publishing

• Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Animal, Bugs

  Letter to Georgiana Shipley, 26 Sept. 1772.

• Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Animal, Pigeons

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

• Man is a tool-making animal

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Men, Tools

  Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1778)

• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

• That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Air, Vegetables

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Philosophical. Essays and correspondence”, p.322

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