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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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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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare
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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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A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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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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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
John Milton
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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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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Homer
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Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.
David Wojnarowicz
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Cato the Younger
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Who’s a friend, who’s an enemy? ‘Cause sometimes they look the same to me. But looks can be pleasing, yet so deceiving. Sweet words from a serpent’s tongue. It’s like playing with a loaded gun!
Beatrice Miller
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
Etgar Keret
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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
William Shakespeare
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
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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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
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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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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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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras
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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