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
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
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.
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard
Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.