Tongue Quotes - Page 26

• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  Euripides

  Gossip, Littles, Little Things

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Emotion, Consciousness

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• Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Silence, Speak, Silent

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• Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

  Octavio Paz

  Confused, Yesterday, Space

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Men, Animal

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• Art made tongue-tied by authority.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books

  Sonnet 66

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• It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

  Euripides

  Heart, Commitment, My Heart

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• Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Childhood, Speak

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

  Horace Mann

  Expenses

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• He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Complaining, Wit

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• Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Pathos, Wit, Consistent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233

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• There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Witty, Littles, Sticks

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.163

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• True wit is nature to advantage dressed;
  What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Advantage, Wit

  "A Selection from the Poetry of Alexander Pope".

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• Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

  Mark Van Doren

  Wise, Wisdom, Wall

  Mark Van Doren (1939). “Collected Poems, 1922-1938”

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Levels, Wit And Humor, Welcome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Your wits make others witty.

  Catherine the Great

  Witty, Wit

  Letter to Voltaire. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Loise Roberts, 1922.

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Mother, Gentleman

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• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Perseverance, Kindness

  William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• 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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• 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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