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
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
Men and Melons are hard to know.
Lying rides upon debt's back.
Do not do that which you would not have known.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.