Tongue Quotes - Page 8

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it . . .

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.