Top 1200 Tongue Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous?

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

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

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

I'm not going to hold my tongue because society wouldn't want me to say something.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

I like 'Yabai!' That just rolls off the tongue. It means sick, wicked in Japanese.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

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

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

For me, Malayalam is a difficult language. It has got a lot of tongue-twisting words.

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.

If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.