Tongue Quotes · Page 30

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

— Minna Antrim

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

— Charles Spurgeon

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

— John Heywood

“Keep lipping off, and I'll find a use for that tongue." "Keep dreaming, man-whore.”

— Amelia Hutchins

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,

— Anne Bradstreet

“Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's…

— John Milton

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where…

— William Shakespeare

I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more…

— Rod Steiger

It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows…

— Teresa of Avila

An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile…

— Jessica Chastain

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their…

— Torquato Tasso

The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore,…

— Joseph Hall

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling…

— Peter David

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot,…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if…

— David Levithan

“Frustrated, Ria threw down her napkin and rose to her feet. "If he's that great, you marry him. I will not marry…

— Nalini Singh

The Lord Jesus himself proclaims, 'This is My Body.' Before the blessing of the heavenly words something of another character is spoken…

— Ambrose

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

— Dallas Willard

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak…

— Anonymous

This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine…

— Walter Moers

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

— Anonymous

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

— Nicky Gumbel

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

— Diogenes

“If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper.”

— Francine Pascal

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

— David Ogilvy

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

— Busta Rhymes

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our…

— Richard Lederer

Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a…

— Anonymous

“That happens sometimes, right? It's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't think of it.”

— Haruki Murakami

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

— William Shakespeare

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks…

— John Gay

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

— William Shakespeare

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

— J. C. Ryle

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 tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.”

— Anthony Liccione

“God has not blessed everyone with the sweet tongue but yes with the intellectual off course, with whom you want to use…

— Taran Kumar