Tongue Quotes

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

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

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

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

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

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