Tongues Quotes · Page 3

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

— George Herbert

“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

— Dr. Seuss

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

— Ten Bears

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

— Stephen King

Evil tongues never want a whet.

— Alain-Rene Lesage

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Foolish tongues will always wag, ma’am, but people of goodwill ignore them.”

— Jennifer Paynter

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

— John Milton

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

— Joseph Hall

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.

— Theognis of Megara

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

— Fanny Fern

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

— Baruch Spinoza

If only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak - Shaun Shane

— Shaun Shane

“God trades your natural plans and ideas for His through the supernatural medium of exchange, tongues for personal edification.”

— Dave Roberson

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to…

— George Steiner

“She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they…

— J.X. Burros

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the…

— A. E. Waite

“Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with…

— Anne Sexton

You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of…

— William Shakespeare

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.…

— Baruch Spinoza

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between…

— Chris Oyakhilome

Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord…

— Thomas Browne

“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his…

— Scott Lynch

“You may say, I thought the Lord would give us the gift of tongues. He won't if we are too indolent to…

— John Taylor

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Don’t you two dare say a thing,” she pointed a finger at us, straightening her skirt with the other hand. “Just bite…

— Micalea Smeltzer

Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are…

— Akhenaton

“We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word…

— Jeff Deck

“The reason we talk with the same part of the body we eat with is because if we tried to eat with…

— Jarod Kintz

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

— Andy Serkis

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

— Dr. Seuss

“Wars start when two parties haven't taken the time to learn each other's tongues”

— Tomson Highway

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

— William Shakespeare

“He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.”

— Victor Hugo

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

— Charlton Laird

“Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.”

— Dashka Slater

“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.”

— W.G. Sebald

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

— William Shakespeare

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Dwarves’ tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien