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
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.
Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
He that takes a wife, takes care
There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.