Tongue Quotes
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac -
I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.
Dolley Madison
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Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
Chilon of Sparta -
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Selma Lagerlof -
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson -
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
William Shakespeare -
Here. Have a Coke. That’s good for a sore throat, right?” “Good for everything,” Shane croaked, and took the extended cold can with good grace. “Thanks.” “You owe me a dollar,” Eve said. “I’ll add it to the five thousand you already owe me, though.” He blew her a kiss, and she stuck her tongue out at him, and that was the end of the subject, thankfully.
Rachel Caine -
A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
Kabir
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare -
The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
William R. Alger -
Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
Corrie Ten Boom -
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
Charlotte Bronte -
Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
William Shakespeare -
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
Rudyard Kipling
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What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say
William Shakespeare -
The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.
Abu Nu`aym -
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 -
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Euripides -
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Alan Rickman -
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
William Shakespeare
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I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else.
Bedrich Smetana -
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium -
Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
John Milton