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
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Speak little, do much.
Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
Little boats should keep near shore
Half-wits talk much, but say little.
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
Praise little, dispraise less.
He that would travel much, should eat little.
Great talkers are little doers.