The Tongue Quotes

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

A still tongue makes a happy life.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

The honied tongue hath its poison.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

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.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)

Shutup, lapdog, this isn’t your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it.

You’ve no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)

One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.