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• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Suits, Opinion

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• It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Speak, Wit

  "Of Society and of Conversation". "The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère", newly rendered into English by Henri Van Laun, www.bartleby.com. 1885.

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

  George W. Bush

  Years, Elbows, Sharp Tongue

  "Three's a Crowd in Presidential Race?". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

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

  Joseph Butler

  Lying, Vices, Deceit

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

  Scott Caan

  Guy, Hollywood, Nails

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• I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

  John Carpenter

  Looks, Rooms, Serious

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• Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

  Jackie Chan

  Crazy, Perfect, Together

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• A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Men, Advice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.346, Oxford University Press

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gossip, Poison, Whispering

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Flower, People

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• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, World, Gains

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• 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.

  Jonathan Davis

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• 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.

  William Drummond

  Safety, Silence, Mouths

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• How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Sky, People

  "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

  George Eliot

  Witty, People, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Black Elk

  Summer, Horse, Years

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

  Gloria Estefan

  Firsts, Albums, Done

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

  Euripides

  Soul, Swearing, My Soul

  Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Real, Ice Cream

  "Test Marketing a New Term ..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fire, Dry, Opinion

  Ellen Glasgow (2015). “The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields”, p.137, The Floating Press

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• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Journey, Bravery

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.540, eBookIt.com

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• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cutting, Drunk, Sound

  "Edward Van Halen Is Alive" by David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. May 2012.

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• Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Growing Up, Kids

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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