Quotes about Tongue

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Votes: 12

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. Votes: 9

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Votes: 9

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. Votes: 8

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. Votes: 8

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Votes: 8

Better the feet slip then the tongue. Votes: 7

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. Votes: 7

The windy satisfaction of the tongue. Votes: 6

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Votes: 6

The pen is the tongue of the mind. Votes: 6

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. Votes: 6

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. Votes: 6

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Votes: 6

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. Votes: 6

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. Votes: 6

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit. Votes: 6

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. Votes: 6

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. Votes: 6

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. Votes: 6

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. Votes: 6

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. Votes: 6

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. Votes: 6

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Votes: 6

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. Votes: 6

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Votes: 6

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. Votes: 5

Give thy thoughts no tongue. Votes: 4

I will speak with a straight tongue. Votes: 4

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Votes: 4

The pen is the tongue of the mind. Votes: 4

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. Votes: 4

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. Votes: 4

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Votes: 4

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. Votes: 4

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. Votes: 4

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. Votes: 4

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. Votes: 4

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek. Votes: 4

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. Votes: 4

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. Votes: 4

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. Votes: 4

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth. Votes: 4

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in. Votes: 4

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. Votes: 4

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. Votes: 4

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. Votes: 4

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. Votes: 4

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. Votes: 4

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Votes: 4

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. Votes: 4

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. Votes: 4

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth. Votes: 4

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. Votes: 4

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. Votes: 4

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. Votes: 4

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can. Votes: 4

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Votes: 4

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 4

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. Votes: 4

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Votes: 4

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony. Votes: 4

Reality, the oppressor's tongue. Votes: 3

The mother tongue is propaganda. Votes: 3

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. Votes: 3

A tongue blistered with smiling" Votes: 3

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting. Votes: 3

Facts are God's native tongue. Votes: 3

Art made tongue-tied by authority. Votes: 3

Faithful heart may have froward tongue. Votes: 3

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought. Votes: 3

Faire language grates not the tongue. Votes: 3

Silence is become his mother tongue. Votes: 3

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue. Votes: 3

The honied tongue hath its poison. Votes: 3

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God. Votes: 3

Better slip with foot than tongue. Votes: 3

Done to death by slanderous tongue Votes: 3

A fool cannot hold his tongue. Votes: 3

Love's tongue is in the eyes.... Votes: 3

Egotism is the tongue of vanity. Votes: 3

Fair words never hurt the tongue. Votes: 3

I'm tired of biting my tongue. Votes: 3

A woman's weapon is her tongue. Votes: 3

My tongue is pierced with glass. Votes: 3

A great ox stands on my tongue. Votes: 3

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. Votes: 3

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue. Votes: 3

A man is hid under his tongue. Votes: 3

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart. Votes: 3

Caught between the tongue and the taste. Votes: 3

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Votes: 3

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue Votes: 3

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. Votes: 3

At birth the Devil touched my tongue. Votes: 3

Many a man's tongue broke his nose. Votes: 3

A still tongue keeps a wise head. Votes: 3

A still tongue makes a happy life. Votes: 3

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. Votes: 3

She is written in a foreign tongue. Votes: 3

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. Votes: 3

Let the poor man mind his tongue Votes: 3

My love's more richer than my tongue. Votes: 3

Top of mind means tip of tongue. Votes: 3

A coward's courage is in his tongue. Votes: 3

The tongue talkes at the heads cost. Votes: 3

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. Votes: 3

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue... Votes: 3

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. Votes: 3

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend. Votes: 3

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue. Votes: 3

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride. Votes: 3

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. Votes: 3

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue. Votes: 3

The pen is the tongue of the mind. Votes: 3

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense. Votes: 3

The eye tells what the tongue would hide. Votes: 3

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. Votes: 3

The tongue of man is a twisty thing. Votes: 3

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. Votes: 3

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. Votes: 3

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought. Votes: 3

It's like an angel crying on your tongue. Votes: 3

What is a nation without a mother tongue? Votes: 3

The mind knows not what the tongue wants. Votes: 3

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. Votes: 3

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue. Votes: 3

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. Votes: 3

Love provided me with a tongue and tears. Votes: 3

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi. Votes: 3

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. Votes: 3

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage. Votes: 3

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't. Votes: 3

The tongue has the power of life and death. Votes: 3

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words. Votes: 3

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. Votes: 3

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. Votes: 3

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth? Votes: 3

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. Votes: 3

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. Votes: 3

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts. Votes: 3

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men. Votes: 3

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips. Votes: 3

Make that money run like honey on your tongue. Votes: 3

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue. Votes: 3

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth. Votes: 3

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue. Votes: 3

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. Votes: 3

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing Votes: 3

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Votes: 3

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate? Votes: 3

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates. Votes: 3

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild. Votes: 3

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. Votes: 3

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. Votes: 3

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick. Votes: 3

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind. Votes: 3

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen. Votes: 3

My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue. Votes: 3

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue. Votes: 3

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. Votes: 3

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue. Votes: 3

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. Votes: 3

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue. Votes: 3

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. Votes: 3

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums. Votes: 3

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue. Votes: 3

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! Votes: 3

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers Votes: 3

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. Votes: 3

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. Votes: 3

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. Votes: 3

The human tongue is a beast that few can master. Votes: 3

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. Votes: 3

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. Votes: 3

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue. Votes: 3

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. Votes: 3

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue Votes: 3

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue. Votes: 3

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say Votes: 3

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home. Votes: 3

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart. Votes: 3

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes"”never! Votes: 3

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. Votes: 3

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue. Votes: 3

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not. Votes: 3

A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion. Votes: 3

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent. Votes: 3

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. Votes: 3

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. Votes: 3

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. Votes: 3

A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth. Votes: 3

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater Votes: 3

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. Votes: 3

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue. Votes: 3

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.. Votes: 3

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain. Votes: 3

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens. Votes: 3

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. Votes: 3

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. Votes: 3

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. Votes: 3

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. Votes: 3

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. Votes: 3

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. Votes: 3

The tongue and pen are great outlets for wrath and resentment. (1849) Votes: 3

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent. Votes: 3

Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart. Votes: 3

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue. Votes: 3

A person's tongue can give you the taste of his heart. Votes: 3

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame "” Votes: 3

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand. Votes: 3

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. Votes: 3

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov! Votes: 3

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. Votes: 3

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques Votes: 3

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye. Votes: 3

With a tongue like a cow, she could make you go wow. Votes: 3

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. Votes: 3

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking. Votes: 3

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul. Votes: 3

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly. Votes: 3

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. Votes: 3

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. Votes: 3

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment. Votes: 3

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity. Votes: 3

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. Votes: 3

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind Votes: 3

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures, Votes: 3

It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue. Votes: 3

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. Votes: 3

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. Votes: 3

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame. Votes: 3

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity. Votes: 3

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue. Votes: 3

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. Votes: 3

One single word and I swear I'll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra) Votes: 3

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth. Votes: 3

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. Votes: 3

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life. Votes: 3

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men! Votes: 3

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue Votes: 3

When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction Votes: 3

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue. Votes: 3

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. Votes: 3

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. Votes: 3

Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ Votes: 3

A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower. Votes: 3

I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionall mature. Votes: 3

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. Votes: 3

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. Votes: 3

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue. Votes: 3

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? Votes: 3

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Votes: 3

Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. Votes: 3

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. Votes: 3

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Votes: 3

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. Votes: 3

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 3

It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see. Votes: 3

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. Votes: 3

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. Votes: 3

He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue. Votes: 3

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me. Votes: 3

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue. Votes: 3

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for. Votes: 3

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression. Votes: 3

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue. Votes: 3

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. Votes: 3

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe. Votes: 3

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give Votes: 3

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it Votes: 3

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash. Votes: 3

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. Votes: 3

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue. Votes: 3

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. Votes: 3

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. Votes: 3

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. Votes: 3

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. Votes: 3

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds. Votes: 3

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. Votes: 3

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. Votes: 3

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. Votes: 3

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough. Votes: 3

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue. Votes: 3

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. Votes: 3

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. Votes: 3

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.] Votes: 3

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue. Votes: 3

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. Votes: 3

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror. Votes: 3

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 3

let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. Votes: 3

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. Votes: 3

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle. Votes: 3

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. Votes: 3

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue. Votes: 3

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! Votes: 3

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir. Votes: 3

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue Votes: 3

You've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary) Votes: 3

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Votes: 3

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. Votes: 3

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision. Votes: 3

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars Votes: 3

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. Votes: 3

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. Votes: 3

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. Votes: 3

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit. Votes: 3

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. Votes: 3

Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet. Votes: 3

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue. Votes: 3

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated. Votes: 3

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth. Votes: 3

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways. Votes: 3

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Votes: 3

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day. Votes: 3

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun. Votes: 3

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease. Votes: 3

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. Votes: 3

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, Votes: 3

Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all. Votes: 3

Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue. Votes: 3

If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue. Votes: 3

My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter. Votes: 3

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. Votes: 3

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. Votes: 3

A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful. Votes: 3

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels. Votes: 3

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. Votes: 3

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk. Votes: 3

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking]. Votes: 3

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. Votes: 3

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never. Votes: 3

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened. Votes: 3

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? Votes: 3

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek. Votes: 3

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. Votes: 3

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. Votes: 3

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Votes: 3

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue Votes: 3

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. Votes: 3

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. Votes: 3

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up! Votes: 3

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance Votes: 3

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Votes: 3

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. Votes: 3

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. Votes: 3

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. Votes: 3

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. Votes: 3

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. Votes: 3

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone. Votes: 3

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. Votes: 3

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman. Votes: 3

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue. Votes: 3

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. Votes: 3

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed. Votes: 3

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it. Votes: 3

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. Votes: 3

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. Votes: 3

The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.] Votes: 3

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago. Votes: 3

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago. Votes: 3

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when - Votes: 3

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. Votes: 3

At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. Votes: 3

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. Votes: 3

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. Votes: 3

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear! Votes: 3

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. Votes: 3

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God. Votes: 3

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Votes: 3

When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! Votes: 3

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. Votes: 3

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. Votes: 3

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. Votes: 3

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. Votes: 3

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair. Votes: 3

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. Votes: 3

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. Votes: 3

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. Votes: 3

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. Votes: 3

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Votes: 3

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. Votes: 3

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. Votes: 3

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears Votes: 3

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. Votes: 3

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. Votes: 3

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. Votes: 3

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. Votes: 3

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] Votes: 3

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. Votes: 3

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. Votes: 3

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. Votes: 3

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Votes: 3

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Votes: 3

That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace" Votes: 3

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly. Votes: 3

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. Votes: 3

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. Votes: 3

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. Votes: 3

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. Votes: 3

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct. Votes: 3

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. Votes: 3

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. Votes: 3

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness. Votes: 3

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. Votes: 3

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. Votes: 3

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Votes: 3

You mind your tongue!” "Oh, I do," said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name. Votes: 3

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. Votes: 3

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. Votes: 3

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. Votes: 3

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass. Votes: 3

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. Votes: 3

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. Votes: 3

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue. Votes: 3

I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. Votes: 3

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear. Votes: 3

The wound that's made by fire will heal,But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal. Votes: 3

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council. Votes: 3

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him Votes: 3

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. Votes: 3

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Votes: 3

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. Votes: 3

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all. Votes: 3

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. Votes: 3

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. Votes: 3

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Votes: 3

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. Votes: 3

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. Votes: 3

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. Votes: 3

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. Votes: 3

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. Votes: 3

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Votes: 3

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue Votes: 3

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart. Votes: 3

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. Votes: 3

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another. Votes: 3

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. Votes: 3

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. Votes: 3

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak. Votes: 3

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. Votes: 3

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. Votes: 3

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue. Votes: 3

The tongue never slips "“ remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue. Votes: 3

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out. Votes: 3

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy. Votes: 3

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life. Votes: 3

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 3

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. Votes: 3

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! Votes: 3

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. Votes: 3

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. Votes: 3

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you. Votes: 3

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. Votes: 3

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. Votes: 3

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty. Votes: 3

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not! Votes: 3

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] Votes: 3

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. Votes: 3

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more. Votes: 3

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor Votes: 3

If every marriage is measured by the tongue of a wife, their will be no husband left in every marriage. Votes: 3

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. Votes: 3

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster. Votes: 3

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue. Votes: 3

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. Votes: 3

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. Votes: 3

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these. Votes: 3

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Votes: 3

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. Votes: 3

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. Votes: 3

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak! Votes: 3

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. Votes: 3

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. Votes: 3

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it. Votes: 3

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. Votes: 3

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? Votes: 3

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. Votes: 3

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. Votes: 3

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. Votes: 3

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well.. Votes: 3

You 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

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. Votes: 3

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue Votes: 3

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Votes: 3

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue? Votes: 3

Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos. Votes: 3

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue. Votes: 3

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? Votes: 3

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. Votes: 3

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? Votes: 3

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. Votes: 3

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life. Votes: 3

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain. Votes: 3

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Votes: 3

I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'. Votes: 3

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it. Votes: 3

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue. Votes: 3

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. Votes: 3