Quotes with tongue

  • After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
  • Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
  • Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
  • 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.
  • A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
  • 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.
  • We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
  • A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
  • The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
  • While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in
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  • Mark Twain A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare Art made tongue-tied by authority.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Cato the Elder I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Euripides 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Washington Irving A tart 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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  • Irvin S. Cobb A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Campbell Brown After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Samuel Johnson Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arnold Bennett Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
    Giuseppe Garibaldi
     
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  • William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Give us that grand word ''woman'' once again, and let's have done with ''lady''; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Henry Fielding Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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