Tongue Quotes - page 4

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue." (Plutarch)
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point. View quote
Amber Benson
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Noble Eightfold Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love. View quote
Annie Besant
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. View quote
Mary Howitt
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary. View quote
Andy Partridge
From all who dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue. (Isaac Watts)
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. View quote
Robertson Davies
Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. View quote
Russell Baker
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. View quote
Mao Zedong
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I've said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. View quote
William Shakespeare
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. View quote
William Shakespeare
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear; That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere. (William Shakespeare)
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. View quote
William Shakespeare
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . . View quote
William Shakespeare
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. View quote
Sallust
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore