Tongue Quotes - Page 27

• Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

  Hasan of Basra

  Wisdom, Islamic, Doe

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• Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Lying, Islamic

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• Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
  Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
  My choicest hours
  Are the hours I spend with You -
  O God, I can't live in this world
  Without remembering You

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Thy tongue
  Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
  Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
  With ravishing division, to her lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Sweet

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [207]

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• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dirty, School, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Real, Writing, Character

  Louis Auchincloss (1979). “Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches”, Houghton Mifflin

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• He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Writing, Men

  'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

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• Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

  Richard Reti

  Mother, Chess, Capablanca

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• For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

  Garry Kasparov

  Age, Chess, Immersion

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.

  Joseph Lyons

  Heart, Wine, Eye

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• Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it . . .

  Pope Pius IV

  Men, Evil, Causes

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• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Tyrants, Honest

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Macbeth”, p.227

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• If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

  Frederick Douglass

  Eagles, Civilization, Wings

  "Our Composite Nationality". Frederick Douglass' Address in Boston, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. December 7, 1869.

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• Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, Deeds, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.426, Harvard University Press

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Vipers

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

  Walter Raleigh

  Spring, Flower, Fall

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.708

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• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, Dying, Assassins

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• That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face
  Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace"

  Mac Lethal

  Hip Hop, Grace, Saving

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• I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

  Dolley Madison

  Memorable, Fighting, Hands

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Communication, Men, Dumb

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya:
  You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now.
  Block the music and the people out to admire the love,
  The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club.
  And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint,
  It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Block, Rap, Blow

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• A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Trying, Want

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Expression, Giving, Sound

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• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Political, Cain

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What is a nation without a mother tongue?

  Jack Edwards

  Mother, Language, Nations

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