Tongue famous quotes

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.
-- Abu Nu`aym

#Needs #Tongue #Limbs

A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.
-- Adele

#Drunk #Tongue #Opinion

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Reality #Poetry #Tongue

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Eye #Way #Tongue

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
-- Al Nichol

#Tongue #Speak #Economics

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
-- Alan Rickman

#Tongue #Celts

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
-- Albert Camus

#Powerful #Enemy #Tongue

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]
-- Aldous Huxley

#Gratitude #Thinking #Tongue

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
-- Alexander Pope

#Nature #Tongue #Advantage

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
-- Alexander Pope

#Life #Eye #Tongue

A man is hid under his tongue.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Tongue

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom #Tongue #Faces

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Wish #Tongue #Facts

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
-- Amber Benson

#Kissing #Mouths #Tongue

My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.
-- Amber Dermont

#Tongue #Cold #Candy

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Tongue #Truth Is #Pens

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Simple #Voice #Tongue

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Song #Children #Tongue

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
-- Anna Held

#Cute #Tongue #Speak

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Hands #Tongue #Fit

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Hands #Female #Tongue

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
-- Anne Bronte

#Tongue #Speak #Slander

Caught between the tongue and the taste.
-- Anne Carson

#Taste #Tongue #Caught

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
-- Annie Baker

#Tongue #Tongue Tied #Terrible

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
-- Anthony Marra

#Tongue #Fluency #Mint

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.
-- Aristotle

#Wise #Men #Tongue

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Eye #Self #Tongue

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Tongue #Artistic #Cold

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
-- Arthur Miller

#Judging #Tongue #Speak

A still tongue keeps a wise head.
-- Barbara Ann Kipfer

#Wise #Tongue #Stills

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.
-- Barbara Seranella

#Successful #People #Tongue

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
-- Baruch Spinoza

#Men #Desire #Tongue

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
-- Baruch Spinoza

#Men #Desire #Tongue

Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Lips #Tongue #Jokes

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Tongue #Lips #Bite Me

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.
-- Benjamin Bratt

#World #Matter #Tongue

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.
-- Beth Moore

#Enemy #Tongue #Threat

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.
-- Betty Smith

#Growing Up #Papa #Tongue

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
-- Betty White

#Elephants #Tongue #Turns

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
-- Black Francis

#Wise #Perfect #Tongue

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
-- Brad Paisley

#Tongue #Serious #Ballads

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...
-- Brendan Behan

#Land #Tongue #Language

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'
-- Bret Harte

#Might #Tongue #Might Have Been

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.
-- Bruno Heller

#Drinking #Angel #Tongue

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
-- Bryan Procter

#Earth #Noise #Tongue

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
-- Carl Jung

#Men #Tongue #Speak

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
-- Carol Ann Duffy

#Drawing #Tongue

Your wits make others witty.
-- Catherine the Great

#Witty #Tongue #Wit

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

#Anger #Thinking #Tongue

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
-- Cato the Younger

#Silence #Tongue #Quiet

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Home #World #Tongue

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Heart #Tongue #Praise

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
-- Charlton Laird

#Men #Mind #Tongue

I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha
-- Chetan Bhagat

#Laughing #Mind #Tongue

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
-- Chief Joseph

#Eye #Silence #Tongue

I will speak with a straight tongue.
-- Chief Joseph

#Tongue #Speak

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.
-- Chilon of Sparta

#Mind #Tongue #Should

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
-- Chilon of Sparta

#Good Life #Tongue

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.
-- Clarissa Ward

#Feet #Looks #Tongue

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Sick #Tongue #Healed

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.
-- Dagmar Godowsky

#Two #Too Late #Tongue

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.
-- Dave Attell

#Alarms #Tongue #Ass

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
-- David Coverdale

#Song #Tongue #Tongue In Cheek

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it..
-- David Lee

#Use #Hey #Tongue

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
-- Davy Crockett

#Heart #Thinking #Tongue

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
-- Diane Lane

#Believe #Example #Tongue

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
-- Don King

#Art #Icons #Tongue

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.
-- Donita K. Paul

#Brain #Wags #Tongue

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
-- Dorothy Allison

#Balance #Friendly #Tongue

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Curiosity #Ears #Tongue

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Nature #Tree #Tongue

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
-- E. B. White

#Way #Tongue #Obscure

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.
-- Ed Sheeran

#Heart #Tongue #Bones

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Learning #Mastery #Tongue

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
-- El-P

#Dark #Done #Tongue

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
-- Elizabeth I

#Teaching #Would Be #Tongue

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
-- Ella Leya

#Knives #Tongue #Heal

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Fire #Dry #Tongue

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
-- Elsie de Wolfe

#Witty #Party #Tongue

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue
-- Emeli Sande

#Tongue #Biting

When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted.  As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
-- Ernesto Illy

#Coffee #Long #Tongue

In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Men #Tongue #Sun

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
-- Euripides

#Silence #Tongue #Truest

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
-- Euripides

#Gossip #Littles #Tongue

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
-- Evan Esar

#Laziness #Tongue

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Self #Play #Tongue

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.
-- Franny Billingsley

#Chocolate #Would Be #Tongue

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.
-- Franny Billingsley

#Names #Mind #Tongue

I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
-- Franz Wright

#People #Loving You #Tongue

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Emotional #Feelings #Tongue

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Believe #People #Tongue

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Age #Chess #Tongue

You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.
-- Gena Showalter

#Kissing #Say Anything #Tongue

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
-- George Bancroft

#Nine #Tongue #Disappointed

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
-- George Eliot

#Running #Tongue #Clock

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
-- George Eliot

#Punishment #Rewards #Tongue

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
-- George Horace Lorimer

#Lying #Eye #Tongue

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Men #Iron #Tongue

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Tongue #Contempt #Tyrion

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.
-- George Steiner

#Believe #Men #Tongue