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.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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.
Quintus Ennius
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
Karl Liebknecht
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium
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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.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Euripides
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
Confucius
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
William Osler
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
William Shakespeare
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
William Shakespeare
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Charlotte Bronte
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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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!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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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.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
George Washington
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We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.
Gary Bettman
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Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Gautama Buddha
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I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Jack Ma
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
Ray Bradbury