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
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Caesar did not merit the triumphal Car, more than he that conquers himself.
If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country
If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life
He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged
Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.
If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.
No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.
He makes a Foe who makes a jest.
Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.