Tongue Quotes
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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.
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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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.
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From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
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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.
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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.
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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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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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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.
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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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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.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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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 act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
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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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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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.
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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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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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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
