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 a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.
Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband
for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.
Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Rules of Health and long Life, and to preserve from Malignant Fevers, and Sickness in general.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.
Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter