Body language Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes have one language everywhere.

— George Herbert

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet…

— E.D. Baker

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

— Charlton Laird

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

— Victor Hugo

The language spoken by lips goes into our ears and understood by mind, but the language of eyes goes deep into ones soul and…

— Senora Roy

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

— Ben Jonson

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or…

— George Steiner

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

— Homer