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
Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl
Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard
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.
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.
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
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.