Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Changing Countries or Beds, cures neither a bad Manager, nor a Fever.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Great Beauty, great strength, & great Riches, are really & truly of no great Use; a right Heart exceeds all.
For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent.
If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.
If God blesses a Man, his Bitch brings forth Pigs.
He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees
He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.
He that whines for Glass without G/ Take away L and that's he.
He that waits upon a fortune, is never sure of a dinner.