The Tongue Quotes

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Make that money run like honey on your tongue.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.