Tongue Quotations | Page 2

Keep the tongue under control; do not express all you are prompted to say; cut that inclination to the minimum.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

I saw those ads, I felt a little uneasy. I understood it was tongue in cheek. But it's still not necessarily in the best interest.

I will not do that thing with my tongue

Nationally, I think you're starting to see an emergence of programs that may not be at the tip of the tongue of the media but are starting to be viewed very differently.

Man was given a tongue with which to speak and words to hide his thoughts. 

Man was given a tongue with which to speak and words to hide his thoughts.Ê

I was just feeling good about myself, so I turned my head and gave them the old tongue trick,

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

I think there's a natural argument between the tongue and the teeth. I barely ever get there without biting.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Willy was one of those guys who never liked to change gloves. He used to put tongue depressors in the thumb when the glove got a little soft, and he'd stuff sanitary socks in the fingers. I got that from him. When I got a glove, I wanted to use that glove forever.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.

We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilized life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to celebrate the worship of idol gods.

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!'

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

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.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...

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

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

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

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

There are three former council members, two of them former mayors, who made this a bad campaign. I can say that the candidates themselves were wonderful. Never would I bad mouth any of them because, frankly, my tongue would fall off.

The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Make that money run like honey on your tongue.

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

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,

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

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

A man is hid under his tongue.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it..

Everything’s not exactly the way it seems ” I said. “It seemed like you had your tongue down his throat ” Finn glared at us both. “Well then everything is exactly as it seems ” Loki said glibly.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

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

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

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

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

Your wits make others witty.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

English is likely to remain one of the world's most important languages, but the share of the world's population that speaks English as a native language is falling. As of 1995, English was the second most-common tongue in the world, trailing only Chinese. By 2050, Chinese will continue its predominance.

Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counsel

To his pure and knightly soul not Edith alone, but every woman, sat high and aloof, enthroned and exalted, with a thousand mystic excellencies and virtues which raised her far above the rude world of man. There was joy in contact with them; and yet there was fear, fear lest his own unworthiness, his untrained tongue or rougher ways should in some way break rudely upon this delicate and tender thing.

I've been in America for 50 years. The mother tongue is in German, but I trust I speak English better than I speak German, although I've kept up the German pretty well.

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword