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
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue