(198 quotes found)
“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”
Turkish Proverb
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
Dorothy Parker
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
William Shakespeare
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use”
Washington Irving
“She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.”
“My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.”
“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 . . .”
