Tongue Quotations | Page 6

My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.

His tongue dropt manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

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

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

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

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

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

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

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

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

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

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

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

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

Done to death by slanderous tongue

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

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held

Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue

Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?

And whatsoever else shall hap tonight, Give it an understanding, but no tongue

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.

I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin

I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick.

No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the

He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

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

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

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

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

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

Let the poor man mind his tongue

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

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

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

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

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

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

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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

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

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

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

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

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

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

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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