There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Sing, my tongue, the Saviour’s glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world’s redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.

I can see that. She is lovely, very different from you. Oh, my clumsy tongue.” Vollys’s bells clanged. “You are lovely too, but in a quieter way. In temperament I see that you are different as well. She could lead a charge, but you could last a siege. This is fascinating, little Adelina. The more I look at her, the more clearly I see you. You may be a worthier opponent than even my Willard was.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can’t even look her straight in the face.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

They are fools who kiss and tell’– Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he’ll only hold his tongue.

Of all said words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these it might have been.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.