i think Benjamin Franklin said that ... and it refers to there being NO givens in life except death and someone asking you for money ...
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.
Nothing in life is certain but death and taxes.
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.
Edward Ward in his 1724 'Dancing Devils' where he wrote 'Death and Taxes, they are certain.' Then there was Christopher Bullock had written in his 'Cobbler of Preston' (1716), ''Tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes!'
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Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin said this quote in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy
The quote is "The only thing certain is death and taxes." and Benjamin Franklin said it.
Benjamin Franklin .
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.