The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

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

The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

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

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Sugar is my friend, not my love. I always season sugar with a bit of acid or salt. Listen to your tongue.

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

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

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

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

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

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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