Tongue Quotations | Page 5

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,” said the demon smugly.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

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.

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

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

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

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

Language is wine upon the lips.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

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

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

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

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.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

His tongue dropt manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

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

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

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.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

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

Better slip with foot than tongue.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

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

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

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!

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

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

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.