Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician,

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, 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. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

1. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

2. A penny saved is a penny earned.

3. Lost time is never found again.

4. Honesty is the best policy.

5. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

6. Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

7. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

8. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

9. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

10. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

11. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

12. Time is money

13.Well done is better than well said

14.Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

15.A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

16.Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

17.Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

18.Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

19.It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

20.Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

21.Energy and persistence conquer all things.

22.It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

23.I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

24. Half a truth is often a great lie.

25.Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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