Quotes About Tongue

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

As I recall, there was this one: I love it's gentle warble, I love it's gentle flow; I love to wind my tongue up; And I love to let it go.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

He was a small part of summer, he was summer's tongue.

The characteristic symptoms of atrophy include a dry tongue. In

The characteristic symptoms of atrophy include a dry tongue. In advanced cases, it may be narrow, thin, withered, or cracked, but it will always be dry. It can also be red from heat caused by a lack of fluids, or pale from lack of nutrition.

In other words, the pungent or spicy flavor is not felt on the tongue but is due to volatile oils stimulating the nose.

The five phases are associated with the five basic flavors received by the human tongue: bitter (fire), sweet (earth), pungent or acrid (metal), salty (water), and sour (wind). Although the flavors fit the elements neatly, they function very pragmatically, as guides for knowledge about herbal properties.

Oh, did I mention that he's Spanish, as in from Spain, and that he occasionally slips into his native tongue? (Add your own sexual innuendo here. It's just too easy for me. Really.) He's from Madrid but has lived here for more than a decade, long enough to master English, but without flattening his Castilian quirks. Who knew a lispy accent could be so manly? So damn sexy? I hear those "ths" clinging to his tongue and go loco.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.

Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.

English was emerging from the tribal Babel as a resourceful tongue, but it had no great written language and without that it would be for ever condemned to the limbo of vernaculars all over the world whose attempt to live on by sound alone has often doomed them to insularity, then to irrelevance, finally to oblivion.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

You could only to your best, and hope for a strong tail wind to waft you faster to your destination. Until then, you played the game, kept your tongue civil, and spoke favorably of your enemies when either they or their spies might overhear.

Karate has helped me to control my temper, but my tongue still needs a handbrake or a dead man's switch.

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!

Good nature is a man's heaven, The cursing of the [furious] is painful. If you are skilled in speech, you will win, The tongue is [a king's] sword; Speaking is stronger than all fighting, The skillful is not overcome.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, imprudent ones to feed them. It is true, though, that there are some French words that I have picked up quickly, in fact, words that I cannot remember not knowing. As if I had been born with them in my mouth, as if they were seeds of a sour fruit that someone else ate and then ungraciously stuffed its remains into my mouth.

Your hands can feed you while your mouth can kill you if you let your tongue run wild in front of your enemies.

Metaphors that have the community's seal of approval roll off the tongue so readily that, by any yardstick, they are invariably thick on the ground.

Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on. She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?" "Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know.