Tongue Quotes

• 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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• I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

  Walt Whitman

  Mouths, Mines, Tied

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

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• She is written in a foreign tongue.

  Henry James

  Written

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• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

  Moliere

  Poison, Proof, Malice

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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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• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• And what the people but a herd confus'd,
  A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
  Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
  They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
  And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
  And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
  To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
  Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

  John Milton

  People, Delight, Praise

  John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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• All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Tire, Organs, Humans

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• Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

  William Arthur Ward

  Voice, Hot, Dull

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

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• One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Race, Rock And Roll

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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

  John Schlesinger

  Has Beens, Cheeks, Felt

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• Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

  Horace Walpole

  Distance, Heart, Voice

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

  Emily Murphy

  Men, Ears, World

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• Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Food, Heart

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• Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

  Black Francis

  Wise, Perfect, Adages

  Song: Speedy Marie, Album: Teenager of the Year, 1994

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• Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

  Peter Guber

  Heart, Feet, Shining

  "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.

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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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• No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Heaven, Watches

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• Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

  Robin Hobb

  Silence, Asks

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.35, Spectra

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• My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

  Enya

  Children, Teeth, Mouths

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• It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

  John Owen

  Mean, Eye, Men

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.34, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• [F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, President, Disposition

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

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