Quotes with tongue-twisters

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  • Epictetus Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Socrates Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord George Byron No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Marilyn French One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Adam Clarke Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare See what a ready tongue suspicion hath.
    Henry IV (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aaron Hill She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Plautus Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Maimonides Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Washington Irving Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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