Quotes
Quotes about Tongue
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
From the strife of tongues.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.
All nations and kindreds and tongues.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs.
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs.
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
