"Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes."
Read quote
13 likes
Tongue quotes
Tongue
577 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Tongue
Browse quotes that often appear alongside tongue — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Tongue quotes (page 3 of 29)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
Read quote
13 likes
"The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory."
Read quote
13 likes
"[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."
Read quote
13 likes
"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly."
Read quote
13 likes
"When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."
Read quote
12 likes
"A coward's courage is in his tongue."
Read quote
12 likes
"He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue."
Read quote
12 likes
"English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it."
Read quote
12 likes
"For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues."
Read quote
12 likes
"From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue."
Read quote
12 likes
"I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."
Read quote
12 likes
"Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?"
Read quote
11 likes
"For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise."
Read quote
11 likes
"The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek."
Read quote
11 likes
"Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer."
Read quote
11 likes
"Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips."
Read quote
11 likes
"Your wits make others witty."
Read quote
10 likes
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]"
Read quote
10 likes
"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ."
Read quote
10 likes