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Tongue Quotes & Sayings

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

And a gentle tongue breaks a bone. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

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

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

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

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. — Howard Rheingold

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

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

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue. — Martial

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

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. — William Shakespeare

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

Nothing says, 'I like you' like your tongue in their mouth. — Kristen Ashley

God, but she loved it. His tongue — Maya Banks

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

It means you've got a sexy tongue and you know how to use it. — Elle Kennedy

My love's more richer than my tongue. — William Shakespeare

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

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. — R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I. — Pink Floyd

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

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

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. — Homer

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

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

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

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zeke? Figures." She made a big deal about wiping her hands on her jeans. "Keep your germs to yourself. I have no idea where that tongue has been. — Lea Barrymire

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

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue. — James A. Owen

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. — John Wycliffe

Sometimes you have to decide which will hurt more: biting your tongue or having your say. — Faydra D. Fields

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

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

If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper. — Francine Pascal

Because I crave you. I crave your lips, your tongue, your body pressed against mine. — Helen Hardt

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. — Richard Reti

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

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

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

My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol. — Jerzy Pilch

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body — Charles Dickens

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

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. — Kate Cary

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

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

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. — El-P

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

I mean you ask me
not to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles. — Clementine Von Radics

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

There's something in this starlight that loosens one's tongue. I'm an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you. — H.G.Wells

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

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

I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely. — Catherynne M Valente

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

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

You'll find, someday," Paks found herself saying, "that your own tongue cuts you worse than any blade. I — Elizabeth Moon

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

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

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

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

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

Argentine was a hard king to serve. He had a barbed whip for a tongue and it drew blood whenever he spoke. — Jeff Wheeler

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

I bite my tongue and scowl my love, lest passion make me slave. — Robin Hobb

Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue. — Edmond Rostand

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. — James I Of Scotland

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

You have no tongue yet you won't shut up — Kresley Cole

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