Tongue Quotes
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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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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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Zedong
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
Ferran Adria
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To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
Seneca the Younger
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Gabourey Sidibe
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The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
Gautama Buddha
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
Karen Armstrong
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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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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
Sam Heughan
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The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
Oswald Chambers
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
Karl Liebknecht
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke
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Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
Ibrahim Hooper