Tongue Quotes - Page 25

• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  Hippocrates

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Hippocrates (1931). “Hippocrates”

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• A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

  John Owen

  Eye, Men, May

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eye, Caution, Prudence

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• My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Hate, Knives, You Don't Love Me

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• If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Communication, Passion, Men

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• I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?

  Jessica Pare

  Mother, Daughter, Baby

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• I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Food, Night

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• O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Names, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.772

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• 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.

  John Newcombe

  Writing, Feet, Gone

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• Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

  Philip Sidney

  Feet, Defense, Use

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• My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Waiting, Grace

  Richard Baxter (1817). “The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised”, p.993

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• Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

  Hedrick Smith

  Sarcastic, Mushrooms, Caviar

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• We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.

  Kyle Bradley

  Opposites, Two, Wife

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• The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Mirrors, Cameras

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

  Jim Prentice

  Discipline, Self Control, Might

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• When on a summer's morn I wake,
  And open my two eyes,
  Out to the clear, born-singing rills
  My bird-like spirit flies.
  
  To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush,
  Or any bird in song;
  And common leaves that hum all day
  Without a throat or tongue.
  
  And when Time strikes the hour for sleep,
  Back in my room alone,
  My heart has many a sweet bird's song -
  And one that's all my own.

  W. H. Davies

  Summer, Song, Sweet

  William Henry Davies, “When On A Summer's Morn”

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• Strawberries that in gardens grow
  Are plump and juicy fine,
  But sweeter far as wise men know
  Spring from the woodland vine.
  No need for bowl or silver spoon,
  Sugar or spice or cream,
  Has the wild berry plucked in June
  Beside the trickling stream.
  One such to melt at the tongue's root,
  Confounding taste with scent,
  Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
  Which points my argument.

  Robert Graves

  Summer, Wise, Spring

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• Loud is the summer's busy song
  The smallest breeze can find a tongue,
  While insects of each tiny size
  Grow teasing with their melodies,
  Till noon burns with its blistering breath
  Around, and day lies still as death.

  John Clare

  Summer, Song, Lying

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

  Katherine Heigl

  Kissing, Mouths, Kiss Me

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• I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

  Rod Steiger

  Kissing, Thinking, Track

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• 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Skins, Yards

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.

  Champfleury

  Lying, Cat, Animal

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• Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Caring, Thinking, Talking

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1822). “Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson: During the Last Twenty Years of His Life”, p.142

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• Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, and possess all knowledge; even if you have the faith to move mountains, without charity it won't profit you at all.... Without charity-or the pure love of Christ-whatever else we accomplish matters little. With it, all else becomes vibrant and alive.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Moving, Differences, Mountain

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• He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Certain, Wit, Loses

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