Tongue Quotes
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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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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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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
Wilkie Collins
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Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.
David Wojnarowicz
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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Lord Byron
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare
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If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch
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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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When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
Ernesto Illy
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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
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.
Hannu Rajaniemi
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Hail, blest Confusion! here are met All tongues, and times, and faces; The Lancers flirt with Juliet, The Brahmin talks of races.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.
William Shakespeare
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Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation
Katy Rose
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We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
William Gibson
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One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
William Wordsworth
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Cato the Younger
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare
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At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Who’s a friend, who’s an enemy? ‘Cause sometimes they look the same to me. But looks can be pleasing, yet so deceiving. Sweet words from a serpent’s tongue. It’s like playing with a loaded gun!
Beatrice Miller
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You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.
Robert Farrell Smith