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The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

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

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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.

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

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

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

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.

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

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Venom’s pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on. She couldn’t help it. “Why isn’t your tongue forked?” “Why can’t you fly?” A smirk. “Those things on your back aren’t accessories you know.

We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

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.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

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

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?

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

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

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

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted.  As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!

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

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.

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.

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).

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.

With a tongue like a cow, she could make you go wow.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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.