Tongue Quotes by George Herbert

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

— George Herbert

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

— George Herbert

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

— George Herbert

Faire language grates not the tongue.

— George Herbert

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

— George Herbert

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

— George Herbert

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

— George Herbert

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

— George Herbert

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

— George Herbert

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

— George Herbert

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than…

— George Herbert

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

— George Herbert

The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]

— George Herbert