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Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip — Agatha Christie

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd
And tongues that utter'd wisdom
better none — William Wordsworth

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt. — William Shakespeare

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel. — Ron Chernow

Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues. — Cameron Dokey

You live, you learn, you stop dating recklessly handsome men with silver tongues and dusty halo's. — Jess Bryant

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged
the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. — Plautus

Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over. — John Ellison

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young. — Bob Dylan

Let a man do right, not trouble himself about worthless opinion; the less he heeds tongues, the less difficult will he find it to love men. — George MacDonald

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame. — Anne McCaffrey

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou. — Joanna Baillie

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth. — Andy Serkis

The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. — Arthur C. Clarke

For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. — William Shakespeare

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues. — Chuck Berry

life will sit on the tips of our tongues — Bruce Meyer

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue. — Washington Irving

There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues. — William Osler

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think. — Victor Hugo

Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal. — Rachel Hollis

Consume all obstacles, heavenly fire, and give us now both hearts of flame and tongues of fire to preach Your reconciling word, for Jesus' sake — Charles Spurgeon

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. — Joseph Hall

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues. — Naomi Shihab Nye

The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain; — William Shakespeare

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure. — Stephen King

Hush, hush! Good People! and good night!" said Gandalf, who came last. "Valleys have ears, and some elves have over marry tongues. Good night! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me. — Roger Zelazny

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. — George Dennison Prentice

Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Our tongues aren't interested in what's right or wrong or fucking irresponsible. Our tongues just want to fuck each other. — K. Webster

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. — Ten Bears

And what they're doing could be called kissing but it's more like sword fighting with tongues. — Amy Reed

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. — Clayton Christensen

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me — Israelmore Ayivor

If everyone knows what there is to know, it stops a lot of tongues from a lot of useless wagging. — Stephen King

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. — Scott Caan

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean De La Bruyere

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub. — William Gibson

I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one began, cold, damp, and sunless. — Ransom Riggs

Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley. — Kate Quinn

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts. — Jerry Bridges

How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt? — Sherman Alexie

The tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth. — Richard K. Morgan

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. — Thomas Jefferson

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] — William Shakespeare

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them. — Moliere

What do you say when a seven-and-a-half-foot-tall woman walks into a room with a battle axe and tongues on a hook? Absolutely nothing. — Pierce Brown

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain. — Donita K. Paul

Men's tongues in some things outrun women's. — Winston Graham

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside. — George Eliot

if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen — Umberto Eco

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. — Margaret Cavendish

Tongues paired in the forest. — Gwen Calvo

Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?"
"I'm — John Bunyan

Are you trying to cram the whole week into her mouth right now? Don't your tongues ever get tired? — Ashlan Thomas

I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town. — W.G. Sebald

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. — George Washington

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.' — A. E. Waite

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare

A few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like leather tongues. — Margaret Atwood

Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn. — Laurell K. Hamilton

and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ACT2:05 — Anonymous

Beloved fellow-soldiers, our tongues are the swords which God has given us to use for Him, even as, it is said of our Lord, — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces. — Margaret Pargeter

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! — Charles Wesley

She was speaking in tongues?"
"What da f**k else she gonna speak with?" Veda rolled her eyes. I saw no reason to explai, so I let her go on. — Sierra Dean

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. — George Herbert

May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

Because you brand our tongues
with silence. Because you watch us
in fear, even while we sing. — Eric Gamalinda

Made me more aware of how we should always guard our tongues and never walk away from those we love in anger. Life lesson learned. — Lora Ann

Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking along, loving. — Meia Geddes

Liars have no noble tongues and their words tasted bitter. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything. — Edith Wharton

For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart. — Regina O'Melveny

If I live - will you let me take a proper picture of you? No tongues sticking out, no middle fingers? — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Good and evil has no passport; it speaks in different tongues, wears many skins, and exists everywhere, even in the same person — A.H. Amin

We make believe that even our tongues are bulletproof, as if we are stronger than what these fragile bones can take. — Shinji Moon

Snakes, he learned, dreamed in smells and vibrations, their tongues darting out to sample the air, their long bodies pressed close to the dirt. — Helene Wecker

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. — V.S. Pritchett

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? — Leonard Ravenhill

Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1 — Zadie Smith

The eyes those silent tongues of love. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H. Fischer

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart
Too easily, and care for many things
That don't concern them. — Theognis Of Megara

If I wanted people to take me seriously as an adult, I was going to have to swallow a few tongues. Hopefully, without puking. — Jen Ashton

We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence. — Catherine Of Siena

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart. — Angelica Hopes

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues. — John Milton

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues. — Carl Jung

Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church. — Sunday Adelaja

Those women like to see their tongues dance. — Ray Bradbury

A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special. — Merline Lovelace

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld