In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
George Bancroft

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Matthew Hale

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
George W. Bush

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.
Robert Fortune

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Davy Crockett

Love's tongue is in his eyes.
John Fletcher

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

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
David Coverdale

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
Richard Petty

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Marilyn French

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke

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

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'Evelyn

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson