Tongue Quotations | Page 7

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

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

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

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

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

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots...

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

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

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

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

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

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

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

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

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

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

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