Selma Lagerlof Quotes
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
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Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.
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Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
