The Tongue Quotes

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.

A man is hid under his tongue.

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.