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Quotes About Tongue

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.
~ Idries Shah
A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
~ Egyptian saying
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
~ Walter Raleigh
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
~ Edwin Paxton Hood
O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
~ William Shakespeare
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
~ William Shakespeare
Men like a woman with a daring tongue. That's a double-entendre, which reminds me they also like a ménage à trois.
~ Terri Guillemets
death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Prov. 18:21) means that you have tremendous power not only to attract blessing, but also to invoke it in the lives of those you love.
~ Terry Law
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.
~ Theodore Dreiser
My secrets cry aloud.I have no need for tongue.My heart keeps open house,My doors are widely flung.
~ Theodore Roethke
Faith is a Christian's right eye, without which he cannot look for Christ; right hand, without which he cannot do for Christ; it is his tongue, without which he cannot speak for Christ; it is his vital spirit, without which he cannot act for Christ.
~ Thomas Brooks
Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.
~ Thomas Chatterton
and yet still the question was there, and my mind went to it like a tongue probing the tender spot of a loose tooth: it hurt but I wanted to know
~ Nicole Kruass
When we got home, Daddy was carving a pumpkin for our Halloween party. Clifford was a nosy little puppy. Now we had a jack-o'-lantern that barked and stuck out its tongue.
~ Norman Bridwell
The way to make most women break eye contact is to run your tongue around your lips. The ones who dont look away, for serious, bingo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You know my name?" "Of course I do." "Well, that is fine," said Enoch. "And what about your own?" "I am seized with great embarrassment," the alien told him. "For I have no name as such. Identification, surely, that fits the purpose of my race, but nothing that the tongue can form.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue.
~ Colson Whitehead
Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?
~ Virgil
No animal will touch a person's tongue. When a lion has finished a traveler, bones and all, he always leaves the man's tongue lying like that in the desert (making a negligent gesture). I doubt it. It's a well known mystery.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He stared at his dog, his beautiful ugly dog who was soaking wet and covered with dirt and grime, whose tongue was hanging out of his mouth. Where had he come from? Zeke licked Dex again. Dex
~ Lauren Tarshis
The physical act of forming this sound with your mouth is done by utilizing the tongue, which represents the phallus, exploring the oral cavity which represents the vagina.
~ Laurence Galian
she peeled the wrapper from the gum and put it between her lips and felt the mint bloom on her tongue.
~ Celeste Ng