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
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
Families ought to be noisy.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.