Tongue Quotes - page 3

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs-I was a man before I was a king. (Robert E. Howard)
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are. ... These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths... View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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. View quote
Suzanne Collins
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil! View quote
Dinah Craik
Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? View quote
Amy Tan
The wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue. View quote
Alice Miller (psychologist)
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love. View quote
Louis Sullivan
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious. View quote
Roald Dahl
The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. View quote
Anne Sexton
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. (Marcus Garvey)
When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains – if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter. View quote
Hasan al-Basri
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue. View quote
Jack Vance
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. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. View quote
John Gay
Fair words never hurt the tongue. View quote
George Chapman
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true! View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. View quote
Jane Austen
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse, All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear, Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian. What you cannot clearly say, you don't know: To tongue of man his thought brings word: What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely. View quote
Esaias Tegnér
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam. (Adrian Mitchell)
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. View quote
John Muir
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? View quote
Ray Bradbury
A great ox stands on my tongue. View quote
Aeschylus
Remember what Simonides said,-that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken. View quote
Plutarch