Tongue Quotes · Page 3

I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them…

— Dallas Willard

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

— Walt Whitman

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

— W. C. Fields

God will seek us -- how long? Until he finds us. And when he's found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and…

— Clarence Jordan

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like…

— Laurie Lee

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My…

— William Shakespeare

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the…

— Amin Maalouf

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

— William Wordsworth

American Sign Language is my native tongue. That's the first thing that I learned to communicate with.

— Paul Raci

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently…

— Anonymous

Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the…

— Anonymous

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

— John Owen

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did;…

— Jeremy Taylor

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

— Anonymous

Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears…

— Son of Masud Abdullah

Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love…

— Connie Foster

Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.

— Isidore of Seville

Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

— Jonathan Swift

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

— Joe Namath

I don't believe in holding your tongue, especially if it's something you can directly benefit from or some people need to hear.

— Jaylen Brown

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

— Kate Cary