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
Fatigue is the best pillow.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox
Receive before you write, but write before you pay.
Joke went out, and brought home his fellow, and they two began a quarrel.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.