Tongue Quotes
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently in Mexico than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"
Sandra Cisneros
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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
Walt Whitman -
Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats -
Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger -
Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
Alice Cooper -
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
George Eliot -
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
Rudyard Kipling
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Moliere -
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese -
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin -
The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.
Evan Esar -
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 -
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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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
Etgar Keret -
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes -
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
George Horace Lorimer -
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 -
If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.
Mother Teresa -
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
Norton Juster
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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.
Miriam Toews -
I haven’t seen her since. I wrote to her a few times, not really expecting an answer, for—as she often used to say—the tongue is longer than the pen and can lead you straight to Kiev.
Bel Kaufman -
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele -
Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
Richard Lederer