"The eyes those silent tongues of love."
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
"The mother tongue is propaganda."
"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
"Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter."
"I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue."
"Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue."
"I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)"
"The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger."
"This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest."
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."
"Caught between the tongue and the taste."
"There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think."
"Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife."
"Better the feet slip then the tongue."
"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues."
"The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written."
"A fool cannot hold his tongue."
"Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods."
"The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it"