The Tongue Quotes

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and thousands of mouths with which to better appreciate the holy names of God.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.