The Tongue Quotes

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

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.