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
Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.
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.
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.
Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.