Tongue Quotes

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. (Publilius Syrus)
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. View quote
Epictetus
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense. View quote
Chilon of Sparta
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes-never! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. View quote
Washington Irving
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter. View quote
Woody Allen
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. View quote
Washington Irving
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. View quote
John Donne
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. View quote
Robert Jordan
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. (Matthew Henry)
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. View quote
Euripides
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. View quote
Juvenal
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. View quote
Maimonides
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. View quote
Maimonides
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. View quote
John Ruskin
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. View quote
Jonathan Davis
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. (William Butler Yeats)
When my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep 'weep 'weep 'weep' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. View quote
William Blake
We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. View quote
William Wordsworth
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
📖 Tongue Proverbs