Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, 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. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
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
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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?
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.
It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox
Receive before you write, but write before you pay.
Joke went out, and brought home his fellow, and they two began a quarrel.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.