Tongue Quotes - Page 10

Better slip with foot than tongue.

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

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue