Tongue Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

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

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

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

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

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

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

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

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

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.

I will speak with a straight 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!'

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

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

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

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

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.