Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

Will you at least think about my offer? Give me your word you will.” “I must beg your pardon on that account too. I cannot give you my word. I consider the tongue to be the most sacred member of the whole body. If I give my word, it will become incumbent upon me to perform what I have promised.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door

Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse of the tongue!

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

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

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

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

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

Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

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.

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.