“So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.”
Charles Churchill
“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?”
Benjamin Franklin
“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
“She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.”
William Shakespeare
“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less”
Diogenes
