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
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
Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Pox take you, is no curse to some people.
As to his Wife, John minds St. Paul, He's one/ That hath a Wife, and is as if he'd none.
If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise
No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.
At the workman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter