Tongue Quotes

Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words carry power, therefore before you speak out, speak in... and test your words!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Try to be the best, try never to be the worst! Live and play the role honey plays on your tongue in the lives of people, never do the job that pepper does on your eyes to others!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely, but be sure you get to where you are going with your words.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

~ Munia Khan

Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.

~ J.d. Jordan

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been destroyed because of criticism that spiraled out of control? How many relationships have broken down because of a word spoken thoughtlessly or in anger? A harsh word can’t be taken back; no apology can fully repair its damage.

~ Billy Graham

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

~ Paulo Coelho

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue twister's tongue could twist, how many twists would the tongue twister's tongue twist while their tongue was a twisting.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

~ Vera Nazarian

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

~ Franz Kafka

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

~ A.e.h. Veenman

Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.

~ George Macdonald

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

As a woman still,without the right kind of mouth,my tongue’s of no use.

~ Kristen Henderson

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

~ Anthony Trollope

It makes a soul lonely when even your tongue has no home.

~ Kiersten White

But thought’s the slave of life, and life time’s fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue

~ William Shakespeare

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

~ Thomas Harris

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

~ Jay Wickre

I promised myself that we’d have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.

~ Bella Andre

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

~ Jazz Feylynn

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

~ Anne Rice

She wanted to claw the memory of their night together out of her brain, but she couldn't disremember.Or stop thinking about his tongue, the way he kissed and caressed her, almost like he wasn't a monster.

~ Rae Elle

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

~ Donita K. Paul

If there's one area of me that the devil's got a hold of, it's my tongue.

~ Stefne Miller

I just want you to know, I will not be falling slave to your devil dick and demon tongue. No matter how good they are.

~ Kylie Scott

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

~ Peter St. John

He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together.

~ Emily St. John Mandel

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

~ Josh Billings

The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

~ Mike Bell

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Snow's table manners are atrocious - it's like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you'd like to slip the tongue.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Remember that it is quicker to destroy than build, so be careful of what you do even with your own tongue.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

~ Agatha Christie

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

~ William Shakespeare

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

~ Ogden Nash