Tongue Quotations | Page 3

THE tongue is the armour of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.

The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted

The tongue should be engaged only in speaking the truth, in speaking sweetly and in consuming what is pleasant and wholesome for the body.

The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue

The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

We've got a bunch of new songs: 'Ashes and Cinders,' 'Queer Pressure,' 'Cut Your Tongue Out,' those were just ones I've written in the past few days. All we need now is some days off to get into a studio, ... We had four days off like a month ago, and normally you'd want to just sit around in a bed and do nothing, 'cause you've been on tour for months, but by the second day we were getting bored, and we went back into the studio and started working on a real Motown-sounding album. We always just sort of go into the studio and press 'record' and see what happens.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me

Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native tongue was German. The most common language to see opera in was Italian.

A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail

Your eyes should not seek evil sights; your ears should not seek evil tales; your tongue should not seek evil speech; your hands should not seek evil acts; your minds should not seek evil thoughts.

Alcohol is a diuretic, and the pounding headaches and furry tongue are caused by dehydration, so replacing this lost water is essential.

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

Praiseworthy is the tongue which sings the Lord's Glorious Praises.

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.

I never had a real job, you know, I always knew I was destined for stardom. That's tongue in cheek by the way in case you haven't noticed.

I've KO'd a lot of guys verbally. I've got one of the most vicious knockout punches with the tongue of anyone on earth.

I'm going to have to bite my tongue on this one.

I'm going to have to bite my tongue on this one. We'll continue to deal with the process that he has to deal with. It seems to be ever-changing at times.

sticking his tongue out at the world in essence.

The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue

TALKATIVE persons easily step into scandal mongering. Too much talk and a tongue addicted to scandal are twins; they work together and in unison.

Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue

The next thing they'll say if his trigger finger is broken, his tongue is still working. It's really amusing.

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

The inside of his mouth looks like mud, just like he looks. Then he has this red tongue that is skinny and bright. ... It looks like a worm swimming around.

I guess the success of selling this kind of food to New Yorkers is that to them it seems new. Serving the head or the tail or the tongue certainly doesn't make me a pioneer in the real world-although maybe, in New York, in a fancy restaurant, I was a bit of one.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair

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

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

They wanted to hang out with me and take me snipe hunting, ... I'd never heard of it. I pictured myself running and swooping up birds. They told me to take a flashlight and make a clucking noise with my tongue and then see how many I could catch in a bag. I sat there for about thirty minutes clucking, going ' Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! ' Then I said, 'I kind of don't think this is real.'

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied.

We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? / Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? / For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue

A long memory and a long tongue are regular ole cronies

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'

It's not just my tongue that's bad. My spleen once stole 100 dollars from 7/11.

It was one of those things you say and then you bite your tongue and think, 'What did I just do?' It made me feel awful, so I sent flowers and an apology.

It's a decisive moment, ... It's not Chavez's nasty tongue that has earned him Washington's odium. It is his policies. What he stands for is a declining role for the U.S. in Latin America.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15

Abe will have to give a press conference twice a day -- and he will have to learn to restrain his tongue on China and Korea.

There's a real love of a lie, / Liars find ready-made for lies they make, / As hand for glove, or tongue for sugar-plum.

They're so good they'll make your tongue jump out of your mouth and whack you in the face.

I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, the tongue of a believer is at the back of his heart while the heart of a hypocrite is at the back of his tongue; because when a believer intends to say anything, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good, he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed. While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

My tongue is pierced with glass.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

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

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ