Tongue Quotes
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
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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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The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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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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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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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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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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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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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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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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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
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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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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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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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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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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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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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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
