Tongue Quotes
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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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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Moliere
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Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.
Carrie Jones
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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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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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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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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
Black Francis Pixies
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
Henry Ward Beecher
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Rex Stout
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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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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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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
William Arthur Ward
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Homer
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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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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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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
Etgar Keret
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
Virginia Woolf
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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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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
Jerry Bridges