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
To the discontented man no chair is easy
Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.