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There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues. — William Osler
I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love… — Robert Fulghum
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people… — Umberto Eco
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,… — Sam Harris
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They… — Washington Irving
We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions… — Max Lucado
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me.… — Amin Maalouf
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. — Baruch Spinoza
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. — Betty White
As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since… — George Whitefield
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal… — George Edward Woodberry
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould… — Virginia Woolf
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln… — William Shakespeare
Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick… — Haruki Murakami
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us. — Pat Conroy
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues. — Dr. Seuss
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything. — Edith Wharton

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