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
Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely
Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.
What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite
Turn Turk Tim, and renounce thy Faith in Words as well as Actions: Is it worse to follow Mahomet than the Devil?
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.
With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.
We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.
Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.
Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.