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

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

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

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy

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

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Andrew Lang

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Matthew Henry

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.
Roger Ascham

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Francis Quarles

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Emma Watson

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.
Robert Fitzgerald

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
Omar N. Bradley

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 don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
Peter Steele