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
Anger and Folly walk cheek-by-jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun
Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.
It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox
If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes.
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest