Tongues Quotes

248 quotes by 199 authors

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. — Ambrose Bierce
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages.… — Bono
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere
In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. — Scott Caan
The eyes those silent tongues of love. — Miguel de Cervantes
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for… — Sam Houston
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato the Elder
The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. — William Shakespeare
If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh… — Max Lucado
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,… — William Wordsworth
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to… — Thomas Aquinas
Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they… — John of Damascus
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides… — Stanford Moore
There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues. — Jim Prentice
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass

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