I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdombetter none: — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Foolish tongues will always wag, ma’am, but people of goodwill ignore them.” — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Familiars were known for their loose tongues until you cut them out. It was a practice Algaliarept frowned upon. Most of his… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“We can’t do this,” I tell her, caressing her cheek with my thumb. “It’s not right.” “What’s not right about it? We… — Ruby Dixon Copy Share Image
“Speaking in tongues helps you pray with the extensive vocabulary of heaven in a way that adequately captures the essence and earnestness… — Gabriel Ladokun Copy Share Image
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“You may say, I thought the Lord would give us the gift of tongues. He won't if we are too indolent to… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“The reason we talk with the same part of the body we eat with is because if we tried to eat with… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Don’t you two dare say a thing,” she pointed a finger at us, straightening her skirt with the other hand. “Just bite… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
“We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word… — Jeff Deck Copy Share Image
“A tongue, if used the wrong way, can cause serious injury or even death. Politicians are famous for misusing their tongues this… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A tongue has no bones,but it is strong enough to break a heart,crash a spirit,kill a dream & inflict a deadly wound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“That's a killer accent you have. Sounds exotic.” “Just British, I'm afraid. I only know a trifling of foreign tongues.” He plopped… — Bella Street Copy Share Image
But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
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