“Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,For in this rapture I shall surely speakThe thing I shall repent.”
William Shakespeare
“Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain”
“I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.”
“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak - With most miraculous organ”
“Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.”
Will Rogers
