Tongue Quotes
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xun Kuang
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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
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Sappho
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
Sophocles
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The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
William Osler
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
William Blake
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I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
George Washington
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How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.
Nolan Bushnell
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A tart 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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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
John Milton
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
Hippolyte Taine
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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
Yasmin Mogahed
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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
Saint Augustine
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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
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The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.
Chilon of Sparta
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Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
Chilon of Sparta
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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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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Euripides
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Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.
Jose Rizal