Tongue Quotes
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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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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
Sophocles
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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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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides
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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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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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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Sappho
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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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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 should not be suffered to outrun the mind.
Chilon of Sparta
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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 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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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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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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Faithful heart may have froward tongue.
J. R. R. Tolkien