Tongue Quotes

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Recovery

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Giving, Taste

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• My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

  Davy Crockett

  Heart, Thinking, Speak

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Davy Crockett, 1836.

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The wound that's made by fire will heal,
  But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Fire, Made, Heal

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Heart, Bitterness

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• When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Men, World, Littles

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1859). “Bind Amos and his velvet principles”, p.153

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• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Variant translation of Prop. 2: Note, 1677.

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

  George Bancroft

  Nine, Slander, Disappointed

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

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Teeth, Littles, Dentistry

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.336

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• Caught between the tongue and the taste.

  Anne Carson

  Taste, Caught

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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

  Richard Steele

  Fire, Gossip, Destruction

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Sarcastic, Communication, Silence

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 914,

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• Give thy thoughts no tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

  Graham Greene

  Hands, Taste, Infatuation

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

  Ella Leya

  Knives, Turkish, Heal

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.168, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Eye, May

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• 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.

  Maimonides

  Liars, Lying, Book

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• The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

  Marcus Garvey

  Together, Pens

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• Love's tongue is in the eyes.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Love, Anniversary, Eye

  'Piscatory Eclogues' (1633) no. 5, st. 13

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

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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