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
Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
A dying man can do nothing easy.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
Time is the stuff life is made of.