Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Votes: 12
Richard SteeleNow they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. Votes: 6
Richard PettySince word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. Votes: 6
James I of ScotlandFor all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. Votes: 6
John Greenleaf WhittierThis is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. Votes: 6
Emily MurphyThe best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Votes: 6
Josh BillingsA slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. Votes: 5
Benjamin FranklinThe new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth. Votes: 4
Karl LiebknechtI 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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Votes: 4
Tennessee WilliamsIt is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. Votes: 4
Craig BrownI've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. Votes: 4
John SchlesingerI 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 BonaparteAn apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity. Votes: 3
Anthony Mary ClaretThe 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 WashingtonLove, 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 ShelleyWHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceFeeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. Votes: 3
David WojnarowiczIncurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. Votes: 3
Honore de BalzacFor murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareWe're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. Votes: 3
Claudia BlackThe habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 3
Charles DickensSilence 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 SidneyThey 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 GreenAy; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareDiscipline, 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 SwiftYou have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. Votes: 3
Carol Ann DuffyThe effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.] Votes: 3
George HerbertA sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 3
Washington IrvingWhoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue Votes: 3
Henri MatisseYou've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary) Votes: 3
Sherrilyn KenyonThe tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Votes: 3
James, son of ZebedeeLet arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroAmericans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision. Votes: 3
Tom BrewsterIn the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars Votes: 3
Sylvia PlathBen's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. Votes: 3
John GreenAlas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. Votes: 3
Jack ZipesThe tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. Votes: 3
Anne SextonJealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit. Votes: 3
Dolores HitchensMatrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. Votes: 3
Minna AntrimSaying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet. Votes: 3
Idries ShahIt is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated. Votes: 3
Angelina GrimkeI'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth. Votes: 3
Christopher Paul Curtis...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 PlathThe clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day. Votes: 3
William OslerOne of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun. Votes: 3
Craig BrownI 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 TrotmanIf someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue. Votes: 3
Dean KoontzHairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. Votes: 3
Stefan ZweigI do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareA tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful. Votes: 3
Anthony LiccioneThe tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never. Votes: 3
Pat WilliamsLet 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 RiordanWe actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek. Votes: 3
Lucy LawlessSilence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. Votes: 3
James HerveySometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. Votes: 3
Alice HoffmanRansack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Votes: 3
Virginia WoolfThe short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue Votes: 3
Frank BettgerLetters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. Votes: 3
Horace WalpoleA brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. Votes: 3
Rudyard KiplingIndulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance Votes: 3
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaThe swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Votes: 3
MartialAt Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. Votes: 3
Christopher HitchensShe wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. Votes: 3
Anthony MarraHold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. Votes: 3
Fyodor DostoevskyTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. Votes: 3
Ben JonsonOnly the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone. Votes: 3
William Butler YeatsI 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 ShakespeareThe first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. Votes: 3
Dorothy ParkerI have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed. Votes: 3
Saint Francis de SalesPride 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 KarrThe tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.] Votes: 3
George HerbertIf 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 GorosOf all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when - Votes: 3
Arthur GuitermanThe pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. Votes: 3
Henry Ward BeecherAt the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. Votes: 3
Josemaria EscrivaThere is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. Votes: 3
Andre NortonO 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 YoungerThere is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Votes: 3
Thomas FullerWhen we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! Votes: 3
Ernesto IllyA fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. Votes: 3
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. Votes: 3
Marcus GarveyThe swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. Votes: 3
MartialTolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair. Votes: 3
Criss JamiI have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. Votes: 3
Kate CaryMy tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareI hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Votes: 3
John MiltonHe who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. Votes: 3
John RuskinIt is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears Votes: 3
Joseph HallShe can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. Votes: 3
Bob DylanSilence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. Votes: 3
Robin HobbBy my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareI have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroHe who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. Votes: 3
Robert M. HenselThe verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. Votes: 3
John Wesley PowellTo beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThat dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Votes: 3
El-PThat's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace" Votes: 3
Mac Lethal[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly. Votes: 3
Star JonesThe chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. Votes: 3
Jonathan SwiftLoquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceHis face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. Votes: 3
John Quincy AdamsSpurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. Votes: 3
Rabindranath TagoreAge 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 MondaviUse a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. Votes: 3
SaadiNo mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleYou 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 LambWhen I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. Votes: 3
Kim HyesoonMy 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 WhitmanSo 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. MartinThe 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 YeatsAt 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 LyttonBattle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceA learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue Votes: 3
KabirOne 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
RumiAn auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceYou can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. Votes: 3
Bela LugosiTen 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
KelisA long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] Votes: 3
George HerbertLet arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroNever repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more. Votes: 3
Selma LagerlöfDon't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor Votes: 3
Jeaniene FrostThe tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. Votes: 3
SocratesI once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster. Votes: 3
Rodney DangerfieldLeft all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue. Votes: 3
Al YankovicAs a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. Votes: 3
Roger AschamThat man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThe upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. Votes: 3
Charles Caleb ColtonI have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. Votes: 3
Federico Garcia LorcaFor 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 MaguireYou'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. MartinForge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. Votes: 3
PindarWe have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. Votes: 3
VoltaireYou 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 StanfaI 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
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