Tongue Quotes
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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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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
John Milton
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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 most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Homer
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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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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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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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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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Rex Stout
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
Etgar Keret
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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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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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
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A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
William Arthur Ward
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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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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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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
William Shakespeare
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Jonathan Swift
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes