Zitate von Benjamin Franklin
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Benjamin Franklin:
Der Weg zum Reichtum hängt hauptsächlich an zwei Wörtern: Arbeit und Sparsamkeit.
Informationen über Benjamin Franklin
Schriftsteller, Naturwissenschafter, Verleger, Politiker, Diplomat, ab 1785 Gouverneur von Pennsylvania, gilt als einer der Gründerväter der Vereinigten Staaten (USA, 1706 - 1790).
Benjamin Franklin · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Benjamin Franklin wäre heute 318 Jahre, 2 Monate, 12 Tage oder 116.219 Tage alt.
Geboren am 17.01.1706 in Boston
Gestorben am 17.04.1790 in Philadelphia
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock
Unbekannt
Weitere 361 Zitate von Benjamin Franklin
-
Success has ruin'd many a man.
-
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
-
The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
-
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author!
-
-
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
-
The eye of the master will do more work than both of his hands.
-
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
-
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel.
-
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
-
The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain.
-
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
-
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
-
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
-
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
-
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do; with them, everything.
-
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
-
There has never been a good war, or a bad peace.
-
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.