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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.
As to his Wife, John minds St. Paul, He's one/ That hath a Wife, and is as if he'd none.
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
At the workman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter
Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.
Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.
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.