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Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady. — Isidore Of Seville

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. — Juvenal

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. — Idries Shah

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue? — Anonymous

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart. — John Lyly

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

The taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. — William Francis Henry King

There's a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus "Leave me the fuck alone" comes out as "Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point. — David Sedaris

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope

A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick. — Natalia Jaster

The mother tongue is propaganda. — Marshall McLuhan

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. — Konrad Adenauer

Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life. PROVERBS 18:21 — Ben Carson

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. — Oscar Wilde

I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it — Sarah Rees Brennan

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. — Washington Irving

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue. — George R R Martin

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek. — Lucy Lawless

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

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. — George Herbert

The tongue of the adder, visible only briefly, is a small matter. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The tongue may be an unruly member
But silence poisons the soul. — Edgar Lee Masters

She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman — Robert Galbraith

They are fools who kiss and tell'
Wisely has the poet sung.
Man may hold all sorts of posts
If he'll only hold his tongue. — Rudyard Kipling

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue — Rudyard Kipling

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it. — Shannon Hale

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. — Brigid Brophy

The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage. — Barbara Kingsolver

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror. — Mason Cooley

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I'll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too. — Franny Billingsley

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice

Few of us, however, have Alice's courage, at the end of the book, to stand up (literally)for our convictions and refuse to hold our tongue. — Alberto Manguel

The belly craves food, she thinks,
The tongue craves water,
The heart craves love, and
The mind craves stories. — David Mitchell

purple tongue, and that the whitish hair that — Isabel Allende

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

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. — Oswald Chambers

Or to lick along the smooth velvet lining of a woman's mouth with his tongue. — Stephen King

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. — Robertson Davies

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

Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own. — Zhou Weihui

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
[The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.] — George Herbert

One could tolerate an acid tongue for a time when the owner of it was so very pretty. — Julie Anne Long

muted tones of puce--the color of tongue and bologna — Wendy Wunder

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.
It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. — Toba Beta

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. — William Shakespeare

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. — George W. Bush

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue. — Abu Nuaym

To him those last few crumbs, sucked slowly onto the tongue from between the tines of the fork, always seemed like the sweetest part of the slice. — Stephen King

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. — Ovid

And death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. — Anonymous

La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back! — Wally Lamb

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind — Mahatma Gandhi

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own. — Jane Hirshfield

You've been on my mind
Wish you were on the tip of my tongue. — P.J. Bayliss

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. — Cato The Younger

Gran follows recipes by looking at picture - to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really. — Simon Cheshire

And with a great pull, I rip out the tongue of the Jackal. — Pierce Brown

A secret is safer in the heart than on the tongue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was more than a kiss ... it was a sentence of unbroken kisses, the hot sweet syllables of lips and tongue making her drunk on sensation. — Lisa Kleypas

Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears — Dora Okeyo

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. — Adam Clarke

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence
an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. — George Herbert

He kissed me deeply. Just how I wanted and needed. He explored every part of my mouth, violating me in the sweetest way with a maple syrup tongue. — S. Walden

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. — John Gay

Linc had always been a leg man. Thankfully hers made up for her caustic tongue and armour plated panties — Amy Andrews

he was left with the words going sour on his tongue. — V.E Schwab

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sally did the mature thing and stuck her tongue out at her best friend. — Quinn Loftis

Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All men were liars and he was no doubt no different - only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound. — Richard Flanagan

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue. — Dagmar Godowsky

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing — Benjamin Franklin

The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again. — Ruth Ozeki

Afraid of the tangle of words twisting around my own tongue, I swallow and place my hand against the thick wood of the Barrier. — Carrie Ryan

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. — Andre Norton

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. — Rex Stout

But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? — Washington Irving

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind. — Chilon Of Sparta

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. — Madame De Stael

I am the only being whose doom no tongue would ask, no eye would mourn. — Charlotte Bronte

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. — The Tru Sum

If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart. If they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. — Rumi

Dex The Dick. Dex The Kind Grump was shoving his tongue down my throat. My boss. Dex. Charlie. The guy who signed my paychecks. — Mariana Zapata

The world is made out of Nutella. You just need to stick your tongue out, so that you could really taste it. — Nishikant

Media: the tongue of a nation! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In life moments arrive where the mouth becomes tongueless and the eyes become tongue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue. — Al Yankovic

The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison. — Sorin Suciu

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? — Benjamin Franklin

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue. — Mason Cooley