Tongue Quotes - Page 31

• Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

  Mario Pei

  Technology, Vocabulary, Together

  Mario Pei (1965). “The Story of Language”

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• O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Heart, Kids

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.122

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• A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

  Homer

  Heart, Slander, Generous

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.380

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• I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Sexy, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

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• I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Sex, Silly

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.238, Open Road Media

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• A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

  Thomas Nashe

  Dog, Travel, Tails

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• Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spring, Blue, Sky

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  Sallust

  Ambition, Men, Breasts

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Good Life, Outrun

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• I you're in prayer, take care of your heart.
  If you're eating, take cre of your throat.
  If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes.
  If you among people, take care of your tongue.

  Luqman

  Prayer, Islamic, Heart

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• Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

  Mike Mason

  Memories, Heart, Suffering

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• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

  Plato

  Knowledge, Science, Dedication

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• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Children, Selfish

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• True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

  Edward Dyer

  True Love, Heart, Eye

  Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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• Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

  Abdullah, Son of Masud

  Wisdom, Regret, Islamic

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• These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Heart, Three

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• Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

  Al Nichol

  Speak, Economics, Mathematical

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• And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

  Plato

  Blood, Hands, Land

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• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Evil

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• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
  When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

  M. J. Hyland

  Beach, Memories, Swimming

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• The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

  Howard Moskowitz

  Mind, Want, Spaghetti Sauce

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• It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

  Bruno Heller

  Drinking, Angel, Alcohol

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• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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