The Tongue Quotes

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.

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.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.