Tongue Quotes - Page 5

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.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

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

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

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, “That’s radical!” Society has good reason to fear the radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his 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

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

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

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.

I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

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!

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

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

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

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