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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit.
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.
There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of.
Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.
Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.
We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
Or form a Piss Club where we all go
in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.
Look up . . . and see them.
The teaching stars,
beyond worship
and commonplace tongues.
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd
And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.
Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races.
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.
Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation
It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.
I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!
Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
