Tongue Quotes - Page 40

• Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Horse, Race, Talking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.194

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• It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Talking, Judging, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.157

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Harmony, Enchanting, Vain

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.

  Adele

  Drunk, Opinion, Honest

  "Booze helps Adele write songs". www.thesun.co.uk. April 5, 2016.

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• Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

  William Shakespeare

  Crooks, May, Knees

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846

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• Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
  Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Two, Wit

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.227, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
  [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

  George Herbert

  Needs, Speak, Effects

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• The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

  George Herbert

  Quills

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

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• The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
  [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]

  George Herbert

  Cutting, Steel

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• The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

  George Herbert

  Cost

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

  George Herbert

  Teeth

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

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• People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

  Ken Robinson

  Mother, Cutting, Technology

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• The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

  John Wycliffe

  Should Have, People, Doctrine

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Heart, Faces, Causes

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• Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Law, Coward

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.817, GENERAL PRESS

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• Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

  Adrienne Rich

  Reality, Poetry, Literature

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• We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

  Sir John Davies

  Heart, Sea, Differences

  Sir John Davies (1786). “Historical Tracts”, p.215

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• I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

  George Steiner

  Believe, Men, Use

  George Steiner (2008). “My Unwritten Books”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  East, World, West

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.160, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Giving, Inspire, Want

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• When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Language, Translate, Nations

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• You can't swallow and think about your tongue. If you think about your tongue, you've got a giant piece of meat in your mouth and that's a terrible feeling.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Feelings, Meat

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.

  Rita Zahara

  Motivational, Unique, Should Have

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