Boast Quote by John Dryden

“If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity?…

— Samuel Johnson

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we…

— Edmond Jabes

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

— William Shakespeare

There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power…

— Paul the Apostle

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

— Victor Hugo

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

— Anonymous

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

— Ambrose Bierce

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

— Donita K. Paul

“Our tongues can’t compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There…

— Jamie Weise

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

— Tacitus

“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process…

— Richard J. Foster

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our…

— Parker J. Palmer