My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare
No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.
William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear. Of him that hears it, never in the tongue. Of him that makes it.
William Shakespeare
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
Persian Proverb
Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.
Persian Proverb
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin Franklin
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Malaysian Proverb
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Oscar Levant
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Sir Philip Sidney
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!
Charles Mackay
Only madmen seize the storyWith coals of fire upon their tongue.
William Rose Benet
If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
Jennifer Ellison
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney
English is likely to remain one of the world's most important languages, but the share of the world's population that speaks English as a native language is falling. As of 1995, English was the second most-common tongue in the world, trailing only Chinese. By 2050, Chinese will continue its predominance.
David Graddol
What about him?. He's poking his tongue out at me.
Paul Rauhihi
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
John Carpenter
...but what courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
Washington Irving
I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.
Busta Rhymes
Better the foot slip than the tongue.
French Proverb
When I got there, his face was just horribly swollen and his tongue - and it scared me to death.
Sam Thornton
What is Friendship when complete?'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From the tongue, the heart, the hand; 'Tis to mortgage house and land; For a friend be sold a slave; 'Tis to die upon a grave, If a friend therein do lie.
Anne Finch
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato the Elder
They wanted to hang out with me and take me snipe hunting, ... I'd never heard of it. I pictured myself running and swooping up birds. They told me to take a flashlight and make a clucking noise with my tongue and then see how many I could catch in a bag. I sat there for about thirty minutes clucking, going ' Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! ' Then I said, 'I kind of don't think this is real.' .
Carly Patterson
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Maxims of Ptahhotep
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
Peter Steele
We don't take ourselves too seriously. I wouldn't say it's full-on tongue-in-cheek, but we do have a unique sense of humor.
Robert Cooper
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Arnold Bennett
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau
[Russell] Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse-with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'evelyn
Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counsel.
Bulgarian Proverb
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides
The series has a real audacity right down to the title. You realize the title is as tongue-in-cheek as the show.
James Denton
Bruce knew Atlanta incredibly well and was on a first-name basis with so many people in government and business and the community in general. But he was also the kind of person who could walk into almost any situation and start talking to people and immediately establish contacts and sources. He was our Rolodex in some ways. He had everyone's number on the tip of his tongue.
Bruce Kennedy
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Andrew Lang
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.
Graham Lustig
Man was given a tongue with which to speak and words to hide his thoughts.
Hungarian Proverb
There's obvious tongue-in-cheek there. It's all about politics. That doesn't mean it's not fueled by personal interest as well as principle. But to not read politics into it is to say you're not paying attention.
Jaime Regalado
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Barry Cornwall
[To some youth, playing with gender identity and roles is as much about fun and self-expression as anything.] There's a kind of tongue-in-cheek aspect to it, ... as well as a celebration of oneself.
Caitlin Ryan
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton
What I'd recommend is that they brush their teeth extremely well but also brush their tongue and use one of the tongue scrapers.
Denis Kinane
The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the worl.
William Wells Brown
So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.
Charles Churchill
Stick out your tongue. It'll happen so fast, no one will notice.
Violeta Torres
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
How come all the teenies ever wanna do is tongue my Diamond tooth.[Mike Jagger].
The Rolling Stones
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
Octavio Paz
I was just feeling good about myself, so I turned my head and gave them the old tongue trick.
Michael Walker
It would have been a bit more lively if it had been in people's native tongue.
Debra Kocher
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele, Sr.
We're so awash in tongue-in-cheek-attitude, ... it may get to a point when it burns itself out.
Robert Thompson
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
The household registration office should be in charge of correcting our names on all other official papers such as driver's licenses, health insurance cards, passports and so on. We'd also like to see the Romanization of our mother tongue name under the Chinese characters on our ID cards.
Mayaw Biho
I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought to clean his tongue and wash the boots of David Beckham as they are so wet tonight.
Carlos Alberto
I check blood pressure, look at the eyes, tongue. I ask about sleep patterns, energy, bowels. I ask about lifestyle, look at diet.
Anne Menard
CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet. In controversy with the facile tongue - That bloodless warfare of the old and young - So seek your adversary to engage That on himself he shall exhaust his rage, And, like a snake that's fastened to the ground, With his own fangs inflict the fatal .
Ambrose Bierce
There's a certain depth to the stories and to the satire. I think we're craving something not as vulgar, maybe a little cleaner. The great thing about the show is that it's so tongue-in-cheek and not as blatant.
Jessica Fuller
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
Thomas Nashe
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.
Richard Petty
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
Saint Francis de Sales
We have 'Wild Bill', with kiss marks all over his face and his tongue hanging out. And we have 'Traditional Bill,' the face we see on television.
Sue Carter
RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable -- omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese, and has no exact equivalent in our tongue, but means, as nearly as may be, 'soaring swine.').
Ambrose Bierce
Long tongue - short hands.
Czech Proverb
The tongue is used to smell and touch.
Bernard Yokel
I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that. . .
Steve Martin
It's a decisive moment, ... It's not Chavez's nasty tongue that has earned him Washington's odium. It is his policies. What he stands for is a declining role for the U.S. in Latin America.
Larry Birns
The inside of his mouth looks like mud, just like he looks. Then he has this red tongue that is skinny and bright. ... It looks like a worm swimming around.
David Nieves
Love's tongue is in his eyes.
John Fletcher
The power of life and death is in the tongue.
Robert Pitts
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Miller
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.
Sir William Drummond
SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
Ambrose Bierce
I never had a real job, you know, I always knew I was destined for stardom. That's tongue in cheek by the way in case you haven't noticed.
Vivian Campbell
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Konrad Adenauer
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
They know that the tongue is part of the digestive system, which they view as a whole, and it's part of Indian philosophy that the tongue helps to eliminate toxins from the body.
Theodore Welt
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
Fred Smith
NewSong is an opportunity to expand the number of worship languages spoken in our church family. We want to reach out to people for whom a more traditional worship style seems like an alien tongue.
Howard Clark
Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.
Hedrick Smith
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
Ambrose Bierce
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, hav.
Ambrose Bierce
Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.
Bruce Roper
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb
You get a lot of bacteria growing on the tongue usually but also in the pharynx, and those bacteria produce compounds called volatile sulfur compounds.
Denis Kinane
(Nash) didn't haven't his 'A' game but when it come down to crunch time, we put him on Ben Gordon and I thought he did a terrific job. He's turned into a heck of a defensive player and I'm not saying that tongue in cheek either. The guy has played defense the last couple months as good as anybody.
Mike D'antoni
I am being a little tongue-in-cheek.
Miles O'brien
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. Women know how to play the game better than the men.
Barry Carter
LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
Ambrose Bierce
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
They don't bite. Their defense mechanism is they just play dead. They roll over on their back, throw out their tongue, and let off a horrible odor like they've been dead for a couple days.
Bob Pendergrass
BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
If we can't keep this tongue-in-cheek, it can get mean-spirited, and we don't want that.
Chuck Alvey
There are three former council members, two of them former mayors, who made this a bad campaign. I can say that the candidates themselves were wonderful. Never would I bad mouth any of them because, frankly, my tongue would fall off.
Odell Shelton
She looked like she had been beaten up, bruised. She had bruises all over her face, her tongue had been bitten, her tooth chipped, blood in her nostrils.
Bernadette Mcelroy
Nationally, I think you're starting to see an emergence of programs that may not be at the tip of the tongue of the media but are starting to be viewed very differently.
Doug Elgin
Alcohol is a diuretic, and the pounding headaches and furry tongue are caused by dehydration, so replacing this lost water is essential.
Claire Williamson
AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
GRAPE, n. Hail noble fruit! -- by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am. The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer: My humbler service pray accept -- I'll help to kill the scoffer. The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins with liquor -- I'll gl.
Ambrose Bierce
Mouth almighty and tongue everlasting, ... Man, you gotta be strong to stand up to Doyle's stuff. It's brutal but funny, and it makes you better mentally.
Jim Thorpe
When the heart is full the tongue will speak.
Scottish Proverb
It was kind of tongue-in-cheek, a goof-off to surprise our parents, ... But we couldn't play it. It became a challenge. You could compare it to country blues, or bluegrass - there's a tradition of form, a high standard of musicianship. That really attracted us.
David Hidalgo
I think there's a natural argument between the tongue and the teeth. I barely ever get there without biting.
Ellen Gordon
We try to put humorous stuff in there. We try to reflect our personalities in the music and lyrics, and we're just weird, goofy guys. We don't want to give off that overly dark vibe. We want to get away from that and make it kind of fun. Our lyrics are very tongue in cheek and sarcastic and not overly serious.
Evan Sammons
Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native tongue was German. The most common language to see opera in was Italian.
Eric Smithey
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Emma Watson
The stud shaft was moving up and down and pumping the plaque into the tongue.
Ellis Neiburger
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