Best Tongue Sayings
1522 Tongue quotes by 994 unique authors
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Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
— Gabrielle Roth
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Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence:…
— Octavio Paz
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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
— John Ford
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Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems…
— Rajneesh
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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
— William Shakespeare
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
— Mark Van Doren
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Your wits make others witty.
— Catherine the Great
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If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh…
— Max Lucado
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It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
— Euripides
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
— Horace Mann
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
— Samuel Johnson
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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
— Alexander Pope
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I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough…
— Dilys Laing
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I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of…
— Charles William Eliot
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,…
— William Wordsworth
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant…
— Hippocrates
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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its…
— Rumi
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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