Tongue Quotes

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

My tongue is pierced with glass.

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

With a tongue like a cow, she could make you go wow.

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.