Tongue Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha

Blood, Drawing, Knife

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

Humor, Foreign, Gifts

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen

Life, Change, Power

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

Give, Thoughts, Thy

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Time, Friends, Painful

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Heart, Woman

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cannot, Fame, Prison

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

Beast, Forest, Framed

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

Risk, Natural, Peril

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

Liar, Same, Books

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Men, Woman

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Except, Push, Function

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes

Two, Talk, Less

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

Wisdom, Young, Speak

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

Gossip, Fire, Slow

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Sad, Words, Might

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce

Political, Battle, Teeth

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings

Time, Best, Hold

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

Angry, Heart, Nothing

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
Jesus Christ

God, Give, Before

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides

Soul, Swore, Twas

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Horace

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Davy Crockett

Heart, Speak, Thinks

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Matthew Henry

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

Age, Temper, Constant

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Heart, Single, Fire

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles

Men, Ground, Deed

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
William Shatner

Why, Means, Looking

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Men, Anger

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