Tongue Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
Sophocles
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Sappho
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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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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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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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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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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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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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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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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 tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
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Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.
Minna Antrim
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The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.
Chilon of Sparta
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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
John Milton
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson