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
Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.
Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.
Silks and Satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire
Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.
Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely