Tongue Quotes · Page 31

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

— William Shakespeare

Before you speak make sure that your tongue is properly connected to your brain because many people are educated but not totally…

— Katrin_o28

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“I stuck my tongue out at her because I'm not all that mature and I still enjoy doing the things that cracked…

— Elle Casey

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

— Rumi

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

— Meg Cabot

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.!!

— Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear..

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all…

— Jello Biafra

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus…

— Horace

“Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly…

— Betty Smith

“Don’t show me your tongue. It’s all I can do not to stand up with you in my arms and carry you…

— M. Leighton

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air…

— Gideon Defoe

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor…

— Michael Buble

When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with…

— Garth Stein

What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring,…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“This must be the taste of Language— the tongue mapped by many colors, parsed by the vowels of memory, the roof of…

— Marjorie M. Evasco

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for…

— Hippocrates

They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She…

— Ray Bradbury

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way…

— Nicholson Baker

And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with…

— Anonymous

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

— Samuel Johnson

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…

— Keri Hulme

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

— Anna Akhmatova

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

— James Hervey

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

— Ann Landers

“Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.”

— Craig Silvey

I'm done, just cus you make me come don't mean that your the one most dudes only dudes only good for their…

— Lil Kim

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

— William Shakespeare

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

— Philip Sidney

I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. (Winter…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

— Rick Riordan

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

— Ellen Glasgow

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

— William Francis Henry King

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

— John Ford