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Tongue Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters
- 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…
- The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.
More Tongue Quotes
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon
- 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
- A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a… — Hal Borland