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
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.
At the workman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter
Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.
All cats look gray in the dark.
E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.
Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.
I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
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