A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Francis Quarles

Music dictates culture, and culture dictates music; they go hand in hand.

Mya

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

Euripides

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

George Herbert

As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.

Mother Teresa

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Max Muller

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Roger Ascham

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Martial

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

Black Francis

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

Ava DuVernay

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

Dayananda Saraswati

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

William Shatner

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Saint Francis de Sales

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