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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.
I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
You have to be brave and ask the questions on the tip of your tongue.
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionall mature.
If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave
Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.
The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.