(198 quotes found)
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue”
Mark Twain
“The head is the house of the tongue; our bodies affectively speak less falsely.”
Austin Osman Spare
“Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; / Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: / Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.”
Bible
“Their tails are high and tongues awag-the twin banners of sled dog contentment.”
Clara Germani
“He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.”
Turkish Proverb
“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.”
“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh bones.”
“Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.”
Richard Petty
“The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.”
“Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.”
