A Quote by Publilius Syrus

The honied tongue hath its poison.

Publilius Syrus

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Hath Poison Tongue

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

William Shakespeare

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

Martial

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

Neil Gaiman

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

William Shakespeare

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

William Shakespeare

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

William Shakespeare

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

James, son of Zebedee

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

John Milton

The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.

William Shakespeare

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Leo Tolstoy

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.