Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.

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.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

The tongue has the power of life and death.

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

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

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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