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" Quotes and Sayings About Tongue

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.

Blood Kill Sharp Like
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Camp Artist World Art
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you’re saying, because you’re speaking to God. It’s a direct communication between your spirit and God. You’re speaking the language that only He understands.

Speak Understand Language Spirit
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Best Convinced General Opinions
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Case Except Function Muscle
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age Constant Grows Never
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Age Constant Grows Never
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Ears Less Listen More
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Any Brother Dangerous Human
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Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

About Big Going Half
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Enemy Friend Heart Hundred
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Change Changing Death Life
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Blah Crazy Each English
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Broken Feel Him Laugh
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
Tongue Lies Truth
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Natural Right Pens Peril
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Believe Cheek Horror Make
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Am Down English Friend
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
First Foreign Gifts Humor
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Tongue Ready Rather Hand
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Arm Brains Clothes Hearts
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My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.
Head Full Fire Grief
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My tongue and thoughts have created enigmas in my life. I own its powers without question.

Tongue Enigmas Created Powers
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

Teach Tongue Shalt Progress
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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.

Consider Proof Written Books
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Now you know why no African leader can speak out against the evil of China! Billions of dollars in loans and grants over the last few years have silenced their tongues and shriveled their balls.

Millions Dollars Leader Speak
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They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Alike Tongues Safe Remember
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Measures Sing Song Stirring
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Gray Hairs Hold Signs
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Daughter Fluent Her Like
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Add Between Ears Enough
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But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

Cage Human Beast Master
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Company Delicate Finest Hearts
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Quite often, a tongue destroys a person.

Tongue destroys Person
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You are born for signs and wonders but without a knowledgeable use of your tongue you will end a Nonentity.

Are born Signs Wonders Knowledgeable use
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If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Painful Criticize Friends Pleasure
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Sometimes words Drew blood They cut Your tongue
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

He Missed Invaluable Opportunity
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Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

Your voice Wild Simple Untranslatable
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A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Woman's weapon Her tongue
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I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it

I speak Own sins Judge another No tongue
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A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children’s play and the company of boys.

Man Government Command Temper
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So speaking a Nigerian language isn’t “tush”?You know this mindset is why a lot of people are not teaching their children their mother tongue. Fear of their kids seeming “razz.”It’s a very backwards mindset you know.

So speaking Language This mindset Not teaching
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Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

Listening Looking Tasting Environment
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