Tongue Quotes · Page 75

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

— Selma Lagerlöf

I would say, 'It's not very fa-her to the ca-her.' They would say, 'It's not very far to the car.' I just…

— James Tupper

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

— Davy Crockett

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

— Ellen Glasgow

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

— Saint Augustine

Well, I think if somebody says something that I don't agree with, I don't think that I should bite my tongue. I…

— Da Brat

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is…

— H. R. Giger

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

— Euripides

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

— George Herbert

The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based…

— Eric Johnston

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for…

— Nirmala Srivastava

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.

— Star Jones

The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you…

— Rufus Wainwright

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

— Washington Irving

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

— Bruno Heller

We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love…

— Gary Chapman

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

— John Keats

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see…

— David Bellos

Some early writing say that when people kiss, they exchange the soul, that it's between their mouths and tongues that the soul…

— Thomas Moore

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

— Mark Twain

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it..

— David Lee

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For…

— William Shakespeare

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and…

— Stephen King