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Tongue Quotes by Mark Twain
- He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
- A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
- The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time…
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
- Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his…
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- 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