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Tongue Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
- Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and…
- This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
- I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
- The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
- In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of…
- If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
- The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead…
- The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung…
- When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
- In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of…
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