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
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.
A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.