For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.
Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
