(187 quotes found)
“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.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
William Shakespeare
“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it”
“I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .”
“She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.”
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
Dorothy Parker
“A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”
Turkish Proverb
“My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.”
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
Thomas Hardy
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