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
Benjamin Franklin quotes about
If God blesses a Man, his Bitch brings forth Pigs.
Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books
Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.
It's common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few
Rules to find out a fit Measure of Meat and Drink.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard