Tongue Quotes
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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.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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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.
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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.
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
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For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.
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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.
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Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
