Tongue Quotes
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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
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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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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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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
John Milton
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
Black Francis Pixies
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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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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Rex Stout
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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
Etgar Keret
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
William Arthur Ward
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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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The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.
Evan Esar
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Plutarch
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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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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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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
Jerry Bridges
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Homer
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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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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
Henry Ward Beecher