131 Tongue Quotes for You to Enjoy

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Rumi

Soul Heart Enemy Mouth Hundred Silent My Friend Like Shell Friend Up Lips Listen Your Yours Tongue Tongues

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. Maimonides

Progress Say Thou Shalt Thy Know Teach Tongue

Give thy thoughts no tongue. William Shakespeare

Thoughts Give Thy Tongue

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. Davy Crockett

Heart Speak Your Tongue Thinks

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Richard Steele

Destruction Gossip Slow Fire Engines Compared Swords Tongue

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne

Love God Me Sake Hold Your Tongue

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. Louis D. Brandeis

Mother Language Important Clothes Manners Medium Way Immigrant Superficial Adopt Prevailing More Generally He Mother Tongue His Itself Common Substitutes Manifestation Customs Far English English Language Here Tongue Presented Speech

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. Washington Irving

Tool Only Sharper Gets Use Tongue

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor

Soul Language Meditation Our Spirit Tongue

A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. Maya Angelou

You Struggle Racism Yourself Dangerous Too Much Will Black Country Salt Think Too Everyone I Think Must Betterment Also Knowing Up Familiar Person Places Much Many Grows Tongue

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language. Jhumpa Lahiri

Me Speak Result Mother Language Consider Bengali Paradoxically Perceived Write Perfectly Between Know Accent Read Without Mother Tongue Always How Foreign Foreign Language Authority Even Tongue

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. Konrad Adenauer

Tired Except Parts Get Human Human Body Body Eventually Tongue

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. Rabindranath Tagore

Wisdom You Speak Signs Young Hairs Hold Your Gray Tongue

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. William Drummond

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. Black Elk

Good Great Me You Vision Remember Old Dance Seen Mouth Nine Summer Only Horse River Had Performed Until Came Years Eighteenth After Anything Much Near Tongue

The tongue should express what is in the heart. Dayananda Saraswati

Heart Should Express Tongue

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