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Tongue Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
- An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
- WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
- LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
- Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
- SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this…
- HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That…
- MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,…
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- In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. — George Bancroft
- All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. — Konrad Adenauer
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
- The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. — Josh Billings
- I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak… — Bono
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