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It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see. — A.J. Darkholme

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words. — William Shakespeare

I scream out the ropes of words that bound my tongue, and the heavens echo back...'I love you'. — Alfa H

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

What is in the heart rolls off the tongue, the weight of your words can be as sharp as a sword or as light as a feather." 03/19/2016 — Suzanne Pavlick

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. — Ellen Glasgow

There's so much poison dripping from her words that I could swear she's been soaking her tongue in arsenic — A.G. Howard

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. — Virginia Woolf

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. — Michael Bassey Johnson

words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV) — Lisa Bevere

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words — Walt Whitman

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,
Which dwells but in the tongue! — John Webster

Interplanetary dust, I repeated, liking the feel of the words on my tongue. — Jenny Han

The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water around us. — Sue Monk Kidd

She's stolen his tongue as well as his heart. All his words are for her. He can spare none for us. — Patrick Rothfuss

When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point. — Connilyn Cossette

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

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey! — Dr. Seuss

My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles. — Lauren Oliver

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. — Plutarch

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ? — Rumi

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do. — Sidney Sheldon

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. — Robert Herrick

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. — Alice Hoffman

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You've got the words to change a nation
but you're biting your tongue — Emeli Sande

I haven't even seen him and I want to spread my legs and beg for that tongue to drip nasty words all over my core. — Crystal Spears

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword. — Anonymous

A man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue ... — Terry Pratchett

What did the poet say? That the saddest words of tongue or pen were what might have been? — Charles Todd

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. — Martial

A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'll leave the way of words to walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language. — Neil Gaiman

Pick your words carefully as it has the power to make the sentence beautiful or ugly ... — Adil Adam Memon

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!' — Bret Harte

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

Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen. — Sarah Addison Allen

Words don't get accident; hands and tongues drive them wrongly! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. — Tacitus

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her. — Glenda Millard

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father} — Richard Mc Sweeney

Words cannot only be made ... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never. — Pat Williams

It's better to bite your tongue than to eat your words. — Frank Sonnenberg

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger. — Coco J. Ginger

The words are on my tongue - the rounded lumps of them, shining like the marbles beneath the tree. — Sue Monk Kidd

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher

He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue. — Okakura Kakuzo

Tongue and expression plays a big role in twisting the words and make the life hell. — Kishore Bansal

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. — Thomas Southerne

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much! — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! — Emma Watson

You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Clean your Tongue with your Words, not with tongue cleaner — Samar Sudha

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

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

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

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

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

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue. — Munia Khan

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. — Homer

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham

Vasic said the words on Aden's tongue. The Arrows expect mercy from no one. — Nalini Singh

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: I knew him when - — Arthur Guiterman

Words are meager things, frail and fickle squandered by the privileged tongue — Olsfred James

A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful. — Anthony Liccione

Her tongue was a restless, restless river washing words ashore its banks. — Lena Aisha

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it. — Robert James Waller

The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token,
is he who has a tongue to tell that must remain unspoken. — Moondog

My words always get me into troubles. And if not my words, it is my facial expressions. — Manasa Rao

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

I know there is no finer thing than your dew on my tongue." Dew? We'd have to talk about love words in the future. — Ruby Dixon

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life. — Edgar Lee Masters