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Tongue Quotes by Rumi
- Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its…
- Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that…
- A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.
- Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.
- Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
- I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.
- O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
- Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination…
- Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
- Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend.…
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