Tongue Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
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From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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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?"
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
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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.
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
