2007-03-17 09:42:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Meaning that you can never trust anyone with a secret unless your willing to have it heard because it is quite impossible to tell someone something without it getting out and around.
"Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) said, "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead." The quote came from the July 1735 issue of "Poor Richard's Almanac," according to "Barlett's Familiar Quotations," seventeenth edition, by John Barlett and Justin Kaplan, general editor (Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2002)."
2007-03-17 09:53:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ben Franklin posed that cynical comment in the July 1735 issue of Poor Richard's Almanack.
2007-03-17 17:04:40 · answer #2 · answered by Bilbo Baggins 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If more than one person knows, then something can't be a secret, since a secrets only what you know. Also it means that People are naturally going to tell the secret since it's in human nature.
2007-03-17 16:50:16 · answer #3 · answered by I 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there will be no secret kept as soon as there is more than one...:-)
2007-03-17 17:16:18 · answer #4 · answered by Lucas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋