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
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.