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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue.
It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.
The wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
I'm working my butt off every day to make sure people have my name on the tip of their tongue.
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.
The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu.
If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.
I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.