Tongue Quotes
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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.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
Euripides
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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.
Rachel Caine
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
N.D. Wilson
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
Confucius
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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
George Washington
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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.
J. C. Ryle
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The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
Charlotte Bronte
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
William Shakespeare
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Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.
Charles Dickens
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It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
Euripides
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.
Shinichi Suzuki
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Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.
William Shakespeare
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
William Osler
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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
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium
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To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.
Charlotte Bronte
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato the Younger
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Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
Og Mandino
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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.
Don Henley The Eagles
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Lord Byron
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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