Tongue Quotes
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
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He gave Blanche the cheeky “Hey, girl” greeting that teenage white boys working up to being full-fledged rednecks give grown black women in the South. Blanche hissed some broken Swahili and Yoruba phrases she'd picked up at the Freedom Library in Harlem and told the boy it was a curse that would render his penis as slim and sticky as a lizard's tongue. The look on his face and the way he clutched his crotch lifted her spirits considerably.
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It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
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The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
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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.
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On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
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A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
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The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
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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.
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Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
