"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin (17 January, 1706 - 17 April, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath (pol.y.math: A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning), Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
Benjamin Franklin
It's just written on finance books
If I'm not mistaken Ben Franklin said "In this world nothing can be said to be certain death and taxes"One of the most famous quotations by Benjamin Franklin is: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." The source of this oft-cited quip is a letter Franklin wrote to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy on November 13, 1789. Franklin wrote the letter in French, which he spoke, read and wrote fluently.
Friendship. Nothing in this world is more important than friendship. The most Famous Thing in the world is GOD, and if you don't believe in god and don't consider HIM a "thing", then the answer is RELIGION.Dont even consider him UNreal.
Bc if they dont they world will end and all clowns will die in a painful death of happiness and glee
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin .
It's just written on finance books
If I'm not mistaken Ben Franklin said "In this world nothing can be said to be certain death and taxes"One of the most famous quotations by Benjamin Franklin is: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." The source of this oft-cited quip is a letter Franklin wrote to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy on November 13, 1789. Franklin wrote the letter in French, which he spoke, read and wrote fluently.
Benjamin Franklin said this quote in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy
Benjamin Franklin is credited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) with saying "...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy dated 13 November 1789.
Almost. Franklin said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" in a 1789 letter reprinted in 1817 in a volume of his works.Others have made similar statements. The first known is by Daniel Defoe: "Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed." This from his book The Political History of the Devil, in 1726.
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." ^ | | This statement is untrue. Although Benjamin Franklin DID state this in a letter to French physicist and writer, Jean- Baptiste Leroy. Daniel Defoe, in fact, said the statement, " Things as certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed." Proving the above statement wrong.
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." ^ | | This statement is untrue. Although Benjamin Franklin DID state this in a letter to French physicist and writer, Jean- Baptiste Leroy. Daniel Defoe, in fact, said the statement, " Things as certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed." Proving the above statement wrong.
It's basically a sarcastic phrase of things we can't avoid, but it's mostly aimed at the displeasure of having to pay taxes. And we know we will all die one day, so that is something that is definitely a 'sure thing', too.
Benjamin Franklin
She died of certain death