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
He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
In success be moderate.
Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
Display is as false as it is costly.
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.
Fiction or fable allures to instruction.
Stand firm, don't flutter!
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.