I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire…

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than…

— Ann Landers

“To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

— Maimonides

Teach your tongue to say I dont know instead of making up something.

— Vikrant Parsai

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

— William Shakespeare

“It was on the tip of my tongue to say something snide, something that would hurt him, but somehow I couldn't. It would be…

— Marshall Thornton

Say what you feel but think before you speak. Rather bite your tongue than say something you can't take back.

— Anonymous

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible…

— Ellen Glasgow

I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex…

— Pablo Neruda

It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up…

— Holly Black

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was…

— Cassandra Clare

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

— John T. Flynn

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

— Anonymous

Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone…

— Tituss Burgess