Best Tongue Quotes
1522 Tongue quotes by 994 unique authors
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for…
— Sam Houston
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
— Saint Augustine
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
— Cato the Elder
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The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
— Simone Weil
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The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
— Chief Joseph
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My love's more richer than my tongue.
— William Shakespeare
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
— Mark Twain
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
— Henry Fielding
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What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps…
— William Shakespeare
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
— Pablo Neruda
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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not…
— Samuel Johnson
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His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
— John Quincy Adams
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The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
— William Shakespeare
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Love's tongue is in the eyes....
— Phineas Fletcher
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and…
— William Butler Yeats
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
— Hippolyte Taine
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I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not,…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
— Euripides
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness…
— Julia Cameron
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You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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