Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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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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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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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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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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Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
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This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
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I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
