Tongue Quotes - Page 6

• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

  Voltaire

  Risk, Freedom Of Speech, Hazards

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin

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• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  Orson Scott Card

  Parenting, Language Words, Silence

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• Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Faithful, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.360, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Language, Politician, Linguistics

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• Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Learning

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.259, Ballantine Books

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• The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Cutting, Emotional, Names

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• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Believe

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

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• Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Love, Jealous, Fire

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• The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Children, Perception

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

  Aldous Huxley

  Gratitude, Thinking, Speak

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• The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

  Socrates

  Wise, Men, Keys

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• Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues
  are called fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Pairs, Strange

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [36]

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• Love's tongue is in the eyes.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Love, Anniversary, Eye

  'Piscatory Eclogues' (1633) no. 5, st. 13

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• There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Gossip, Ears

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.75, Penguin

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• Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

  John Milton

  Pride, Vices, Virtue

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• Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Art, Thinking

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• Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Honesty, People, Soul

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• Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

  Saint Augustine

  Voice, Giving, Worship

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 20-50”, p.168

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• And from the first declension of the flesh
  I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
  Into the stony idiom of the brain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Now shall my inward joys arise,
  And burst into a song;
  Almighty love inspires my heart,
  And pleasure tunes my tongue.

  Isaac Watts

  Song, Heart, Joy

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.111

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• Some words live in my throat
  breeding like adders. Others know sun
  seeking like gypsies over my tongue
  to explode through my lips

  Audre Lorde

  Sun, Lips, Gypsy

  Audre Lorde (1968). “The first cities”

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• My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Rich, Weak

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

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• Some early writing say that when people kiss, they exchange the soul, that it's between their mouths and tongues that the soul is exchanged. And so the kiss is more of a soulful connection maybe than intercourse and other ways of being together. A kiss asks a lot from you. I think it asks a lot from a person to really kiss.

  Thomas Moore

  Writing, Kissing, Thinking

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