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
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.