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
Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.