Tongue Quotes

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

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

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

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

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

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

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.