The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing
Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.
Constant dropping wears away stones
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?
The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.
Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.