A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies. — © Benjamin Franklin
Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable signs. From that time on, I think, dates my obsession with flies. In times of peace, when we all lied still, I made sure to sneak close up to my mother, watching very carefully that no fly would land on her, - I waved my hat over her body, flies don't like wind and movement.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag
When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.
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