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
Beauty and folly are old companions.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Never confuse motion with action.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.