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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

George Washington

For God hates utterlyThe bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Terrible treatment. They'd kill you for any reason whatever. They had no hesitation. I saw people get their tongues cut out because they were talking English.

Leland Chandler

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Ambrose Bierce

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Jean De La Bruyere

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elder

The Bible says not to forbid speaking in tongues, since the miracle of Acts 2, for example, was a miracle of God. However, Paul builds in so many restrictions in 1 Corinthians 14 as to make the practice of mere utterance, what is practiced mostly today, virtually of little value.

Paige Patterson

I acknowledged even in the discussions that [tongues] has been a continuing practice [of mine] for 30 years.

Jerry Rankin

I get along with Pete really, really well, and we get along with Joe fine. Honestly, we've learned how to give each other our space. We totally know what the breaking point is, and we bite our tongues.

Sam Loeffler

Over the past 10 months, we have learned that [deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's] most senior and trusted officials can hold their tongues.

Charles Duelfer

We've been skating with them for years. It's so funny, because as big as they've gotten in the eyes of the audience and the skating world, they're still the same guys who run around and stick their tongues out as they go by.

Craig Buntin

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

John Lyly

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Dr. Seuss

Because foreign children who came here as teenagers have already established a firm grounding in their mother tongues, they are likely to become bilingual speakers--human resources who will become more valuable for Japanese society. If the education system would only be a little more flexible, they would not have to go through the kind of hardships they now face.

Michelle Wang

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!

Charles Wesley

Can hold their tongues.

Charles Duelfer

Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

Valentina Tereshkova

Feel your shins against the tongues of your boots, 120 percent of the time. If you don't have enough forward pressure, you won't make your turn, and you'll skid.

Lisa Densmore

Meditation simply means … to pay attention: it has nothing to do with standing on your head in a corner making strange noises in foreign tongues.

Dale Carlson

The thing about Miami, they don't bite their tongues down here. If they're not satisfied with what's going on . . . they let you know it.

Rex Hadnot

The people who came in told us such amazing stories of their personal journeys, how they got to Madison, that we just threw out the scripts. What these people are talking about in their native tongues are their own personal experiences.

Michael Graf

The first 20 years I was here, if you talked about industrial development you might just as well have been talking in tongues.

Orlando Foote

This says that there's going to be a very bright future. We've got to bite our tongues in this one, but next year we'll be back and we'll be thirsty for more.

Chris Givens