“When my mother died, I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”
William Blake
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
Benjamin Franklin
“She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.”
William Shakespeare
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain”
“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.”
“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over”
Sappho
“The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks”
Yiddish Proverb
