Tongue Quotes - Page 7

Your wits make others witty.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.'

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

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

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.