Tongue Quotes
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato the Younger
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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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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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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras
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From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
Homer
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A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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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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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose
Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
William Arthur Ward
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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
