Tongue Quotes
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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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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
Homer
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Moliere
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
Black Francis Pixies
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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas Carlyle
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
Henry Ward Beecher
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For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
William Shakespeare
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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
David Abram
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He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
Ray Bradbury
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Rex Stout
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Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
Bernice L. McFadden
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Plutarch
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The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.
Evan Esar
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
Etgar Keret
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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Homer
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
William Shakespeare
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
Virginia Woolf