Tongue Quotes - Page 37

• When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Men, World, Want

  Sara Jeannette Duncan, Thomas E. Tausky (1893). “The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib”, New York : D. Appleton and Company

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• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blow, Roots, Flying

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.

  Arlene Dahl

  Men, Ideas, Add

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• One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Appreciation, Expression, Joy

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Children, Heart, Space

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
  [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
  Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

  Ovid

  Writing, Giving, Dumb

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• When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

  Thomas Paine

  Passion, Men, Exhausted

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.5

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• There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Cutting, Jail

  "An Interview With Pete Seeger In Beacon, NY". Interview with Pete Mason, nysmusic.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Eye, Giving, Brain

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.142, The Floating Press

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• Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Jealousy, Pits, Flavor

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• Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Men, Doors, Dumb

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• ... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.

  Gertrude Bell

  Country, Moving, Breathing

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris

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• The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Home, Thinking

  "A Portrait of Maya Angelou". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 8, 1982.

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• I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

  Michael Buble

  Dark, Way, Interviews

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Dream, Taken, Writing

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Lightning

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• Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

  Katy Rose

  Giving, Needs, Microphones

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• But the unfaithful priest, what tongue
  Enough, shall execrate?

  Robert Pollok

  Unfaithful, Enough, Ministers

  Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55

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• If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World.
  But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Eye, World

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• Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

  Ann Landers

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Powerful, Years

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• If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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• When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Absurd, Persons

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• shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Speaking Up, Refrain

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.30, Indiana University Press

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• And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Together

  "Robert Downey, Jr. 'a lot more interesting' when he was on drugs, producer says", www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2015.

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