Tongue Quotations | Page 3

The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted

THE tongue is the armour of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high

The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

I've been in America for 50 years. The mother tongue is in German, but I trust I speak English better than I speak German, although I've kept up the German pretty well.

The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

Praiseworthy is the tongue which sings the Lord's Glorious Praises.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? / Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? / For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail

Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native tongue was German. The most common language to see opera in was Italian.

Alcohol is a diuretic, and the pounding headaches and furry tongue are caused by dehydration, so replacing this lost water is essential.

Your eyes should not seek evil sights; your ears should not seek evil tales; your tongue should not seek evil speech; your hands should not seek evil acts; your minds should not seek evil thoughts.

This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.

They're so good they'll make your tongue jump out of your mouth and whack you in the face.

There's a real love of a lie, / Liars find ready-made for lies they make, / As hand for glove, or tongue for sugar-plum.

Abe will have to give a press conference twice a day -- and he will have to learn to restrain his tongue on China and Korea.

It was one of those things you say and then you bite your tongue and think, 'What did I just do?' It made me feel awful, so I sent flowers and an apology.

It's a decisive moment, ... It's not Chavez's nasty tongue that has earned him Washington's odium. It is his policies. What he stands for is a declining role for the U.S. in Latin America.

It's not just my tongue that's bad. My spleen once stole 100 dollars from 7/11.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'

The next thing they'll say if his trigger finger is broken, his tongue is still working. It's really amusing.

The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue

sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.

TALKATIVE persons easily step into scandal mongering. Too much talk and a tongue addicted to scandal are twins; they work together and in unison.

I've KO'd a lot of guys verbally. I've got one of the most vicious knockout punches with the tongue of anyone on earth.

Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue

They wanted to hang out with me and take me snipe hunting, ... I'd never heard of it. I pictured myself running and swooping up birds. They told me to take a flashlight and make a clucking noise with my tongue and then see how many I could catch in a bag. I sat there for about thirty minutes clucking, going ' Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! ' Then I said, 'I kind of don't think this is real.'

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

The inside of his mouth looks like mud, just like he looks. Then he has this red tongue that is skinny and bright. ... It looks like a worm swimming around.

I'm going to have to bite my tongue on this one. We'll continue to deal with the process that he has to deal with. It seems to be ever-changing at times.

I'm going to have to bite my tongue on this one.

I never had a real job, you know, I always knew I was destined for stardom. That's tongue in cheek by the way in case you haven't noticed.

I guess the success of selling this kind of food to New Yorkers is that to them it seems new. Serving the head or the tail or the tongue certainly doesn't make me a pioneer in the real world-although maybe, in New York, in a fancy restaurant, I was a bit of one.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair

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

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

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

I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

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

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

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

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

How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

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

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

My tongue is pierced with glass.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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

I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach out and just strangle him or send a few F-bombs his way, I just bit my tongue, told him he offended me and walked away.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

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

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

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

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

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

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

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

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

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth.

I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, the tongue of a believer is at the back of his heart while the heart of a hypocrite is at the back of his tongue; because when a believer intends to say anything, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good, he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed. While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him.

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

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.