Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
~ Virginia Woolf
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
~ Bryan Procter
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
~ Horace
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
~ C. V. Raman
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~ Washington Irving
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
~ Horace Walpole
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
~ Robert Mondavi
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
~ John Donne
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
~ P. J. O'rourke
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.
~ Rau'shee Warren
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
~ Thomas Fuller
