Tongue Quotes

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

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.

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.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

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

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.