Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Votes: 12
Richard SteeleThe best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Votes: 7
Josh BillingsSince word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. Votes: 6
James I of ScotlandNow they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. Votes: 6
Richard PettyThis is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. Votes: 6
Emily MurphyFor all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. Votes: 6
John Greenleaf WhittierA slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. Votes: 5
Benjamin FranklinI have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. Votes: 4
Karen ArmstrongThe sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. Votes: 4
Bryan ProcterIn nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. Votes: 4
George BancroftThe new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth. Votes: 4
Karl LiebknechtI've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. Votes: 4
John SchlesingerIt is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. Votes: 4
Craig BrownThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Votes: 4
Tennessee WilliamsI don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. Votes: 4
Flannery O'ConnorIf the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. Votes: 4
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinThe tongue and pen are great outlets for wrath and resentment. (1849) Votes: 3
Elizabeth Patterson BonaparteThe magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue. Votes: 3
Pauletta Pearson WashingtonAn apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity. Votes: 3
Anthony Mary ClaretLove, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareEconomists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. Votes: 3
Al NicholFate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue. Votes: 3
James Russell LowellFor there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. Votes: 3
Percy Bysshe ShelleyFor murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThe habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 3
Charles DickensWe're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. Votes: 3
Claudia BlackIncurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. Votes: 3
Honore de BalzacFeeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. Votes: 3
David WojnarowiczWHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceA sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 3
Washington IrvingSilence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareOne whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareGenius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds. Votes: 3
Edmund Clarence StedmanCommonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. Votes: 3
Philip SidneyYou have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. Votes: 3
Carol Ann DuffyThey call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. Votes: 3
George W. BushThe human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. Votes: 3
John GreenDiscipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue. Votes: 3
James A. OwenAn English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. Votes: 3
Jonathan SwiftThe effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.] Votes: 3
George HerbertAy; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareI'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth. Votes: 3
Christopher Paul CurtisThe tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Votes: 3
James, son of ZebedeeA tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful. Votes: 3
Anthony LiccioneI am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, Votes: 3
Anne BradstreetMightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all. Votes: 3
Wayne Gerard TrotmanI do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThe tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never. Votes: 3
Pat WilliamsOne of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun. Votes: 3
Craig BrownThe clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day. Votes: 3
William OslerYou've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary) Votes: 3
Sherrilyn KenyonThe tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. Votes: 3
Anne SextonSaying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet. Votes: 3
Idries ShahMatrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. Votes: 3
Minna AntrimIn the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars Votes: 3
Sylvia PlathLet arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated. Votes: 3
Angelina GrimkeJealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit. Votes: 3
Dolores HitchensWhoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue Votes: 3
Henri Matisse...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways. Votes: 3
Charlie FletcherIf you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Votes: 3
Sylvia PlathAlas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. Votes: 3
Jack ZipesBen's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. Votes: 3
John GreenAmericans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision. Votes: 3
Tom BrewsterLet your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened. Votes: 3
Bahá'u'lláhNow the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? Votes: 3
Rick RiordanHairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. Votes: 3
Stefan ZweigIf someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue. Votes: 3
Dean KoontzThe pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. Votes: 3
Henry Ward BeecherOf all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when - Votes: 3
Arthur GuitermanI have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed. Votes: 3
Saint Francis de SalesThe first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. Votes: 3
Dorothy ParkerOnly the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone. Votes: 3
William Butler YeatsThe tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.] Votes: 3
George HerbertI feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. Votes: 3
W. C. FieldsWhat, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman. Votes: 3
William ShakespearePride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneBite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. Votes: 3
R. Buckminster FullerThough we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. Votes: 3
Alphonse KarrIf your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago. Votes: 3
Erica GorosIf your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago. Votes: 3
Erica GorosTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. Votes: 3
Ben JonsonHold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. Votes: 3
Fyodor DostoevskyAt the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. Votes: 3
Josemaria EscrivaLetters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. Votes: 3
Horace WalpoleWe actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek. Votes: 3
Lucy LawlessIndulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance Votes: 3
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaA brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. Votes: 3
Rudyard KiplingThe swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Votes: 3
MartialThe short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue Votes: 3
Frank BettgerShe wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. Votes: 3
Anthony MarraSometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. Votes: 3
Alice HoffmanAt Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. Votes: 3
Christopher HitchensSilence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. Votes: 3
James HerveyRansack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Votes: 3
Virginia WoolfBy my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThere is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. Votes: 3
Andre NortonHe who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. Votes: 3
John RuskinHe who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. Votes: 3
Robert M. HenselShe can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. Votes: 3
Bob DylanO Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeThe primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God. Votes: 3
Cato the YoungerIt is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears Votes: 3
Joseph HallMy tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareTolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair. Votes: 3
Criss JamiA fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. Votes: 3
Richard Brinsley SheridanThere is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Votes: 3
Thomas FullerI hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Votes: 3
John MiltonSilence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. Votes: 3
Robin HobbTo beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThe pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. Votes: 3
Marcus GarveyWhen we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! Votes: 3
Ernesto IllyThe swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. Votes: 3
MartialI have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. Votes: 3
Kate CaryThe verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. Votes: 3
John Wesley PowellI have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroThat dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Votes: 3
El-PSo be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinWhen I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. Votes: 3
Kim HyesoonYou mind your tongue!â "Oh, I do," said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name. Votes: 3
Franny BillingsleyNo eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. Votes: 3
Charles LambMy head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass. Votes: 3
Federico Garcia LorcaIt is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. Votes: 3
Matthew HaleLike a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyI act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. Votes: 3
Walt WhitmanNo mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleThe wound that's made by fire will heal,But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal. Votes: 3
ThiruvalluvarIt cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him Votes: 3
Charles SpurgeonThe words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Votes: 3
Nicky GumbelMen are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeThe women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all. Votes: 3
William Butler YeatsSpurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. Votes: 3
Rabindranath TagoreHis face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. Votes: 3
John Quincy AdamsThe chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. Votes: 3
Jonathan Swift[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly. Votes: 3
Star JonesAge makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. Votes: 3
PropertiusI want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness. Votes: 3
Robert MondaviThat's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace" Votes: 3
Mac LethalLoquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceUse a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. Votes: 3
SaadiOne who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart. Votes: 3
Mata AmritanandamayiIt is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareOh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciI would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. Votes: 3
Michelle HodkinI haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. Votes: 3
Ellen GlasgowI should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak. Votes: 3
RumiYou can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. Votes: 3
Bela LugosiAn auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceAt court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonA learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue Votes: 3
KabirTen doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue. Votes: 3
Saib TabriziI just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy. Votes: 3
Miley CyrusFor me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life. Votes: 3
KelisBattle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceA long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] Votes: 3
George HerbertThat man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareLeft all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue. Votes: 3
Al YankovicThe tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. Votes: 3
SocratesThe upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. Votes: 3
Charles Caleb ColtonAs a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. Votes: 3
Roger AschamLet arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroI have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. Votes: 3
Federico Garcia LorcaDon't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor Votes: 3
Jeaniene FrostNever repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more. Votes: 3
Selma LagerlöfI once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster. Votes: 3
Rodney DangerfieldYou know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife Votes: 3
John StanfaWe have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. Votes: 3
VoltaireYou've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinFor heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanSo let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. Votes: 3
Gregory MaguireForge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. Votes: 3
PindarI had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. Votes: 3
Graham GreeneSin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life. Votes: 3
Thomas BrooksBe still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain. Votes: 3
Ronnie RadkeI was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances. Votes: 2 Lucy Alibar
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling. Votes: 3 Iyanla Vanzant
For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life. Votes: 1 Kelis
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. Votes: 3 Joe Namath
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. Votes: 1 Karen Armstrong
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. Votes: 1 Henry James
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Votes: 3 Tennessee Williams
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. Votes: 1 Knute Nelson
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. Votes: 5 Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. Votes: 1 Max von Sydow
Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. Votes: 3 Howard Rheingold
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. Votes: 2 John Lyly
I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on. Votes: 2 Monica Denise Brown
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. Votes: 3 George W. Bush
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. Votes: 7 Karen Armstrong
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. Votes: 1 Richard Petty
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. Votes: 1 Richard Petty
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. Votes: 1 Amin Maalouf
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. Votes: 6 David Ogilvy
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth. Votes: 1 Katherine Heigl
This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. Votes: 6 Sarah Kay
That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied. Votes: 7 Ernie Harwell
I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines. Votes: 3 Quvenzhane Wallis
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. Votes: 2 Drew Houston
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys. Votes: 3 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it. Votes: 3 Sidney Sheldon