Best Tongue Proverbs

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Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore,… — Thiruvalluvar
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. — Publilius Syrus
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense. — Chilon of Sparta
Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared… — Mike Mason
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on… — Plato
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who… — Gautama Buddha
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? — Leonard Ravenhill
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break. — Edward Dyer
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame. — Unknown Author
Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding… — Unknown Author
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. — Gregory of Nazianzus
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Unknown Author
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and… — Gautama Buddha
The mind knows not what the tongue wants. — Howard Moskowitz
It's like an angel crying on your tongue. — Bruno Heller
Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this… — Ibn Ata Allah
The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for… — Ibn Ata Allah
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart;… — Ibn Ata Allah
If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for… — Ibn Ata Allah
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it… — Thomas Jefferson
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,… — William Shakespeare
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles

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