(198 quotes found)
“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.”
Bible
“Long tongue - short hands”
Czech Proverb
“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”
Simone Weil
“Keep your tongue in your jaw and your tow in your pump.”
Irish Proverb
“Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.”
“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”
Cato The Elder
“The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted”
Italian Proverb
“He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones”
Greek proverb
“One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues.”
