Tongue Quotes
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
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A still tongue keeps a wise head.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
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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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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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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
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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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From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
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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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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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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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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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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
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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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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.
