Top 30 Hold Your Tongue Sayings
#1. Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Benjamin Franklin
#2. Sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.
Homer
#3. Real love is gritty. It sweats and waits, it causes you to hold your tongue when you want to scream obscenities in anger, and it causes many men to accomplish extraordinary feats.
Meg Meeker
#4. It was incredibly hard to hold on to resentment for someone when you'd had your tongue down their throat. Plus, he kissed like magic.
Jill Shalvis
#5. Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
#6. I am the owner of my life, so hold your tongue and let me live.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it. - Jaques
N.D. Wilson
#8. The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
#9. If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue
Alice Miller
#10. Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
John Donne
#12. Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.
Karen Marie Moning
#13. I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#14. 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
#15. I wouldn't just kiss you. I would hold your cheeks and worship your mouth. I would devour your lips and make drunken love to your tongue. I would fucking inhale you, so you would live forever in my lungs ...
Pepper Winters
#16. Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!' 'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
Lewis Carroll
#17. If you gave me
half a moon of a chance
i would
kiss the incisors
out of your mouth, clean
and hold them in my
own, like chippings
from an old mug
then
pray my tongue into
a bowl of holy water
and ask god to never
leave you thirsty.
Warsan Shire
#18. Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
Franz Kafka
#19. I would use my tongue. First through those pretty knickers, and then when I had you soaking and thrashing round, I'd rip them off and spread your thighs wide and hold you open while I made a banquet of you.
Ruthie Knox
#20. Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#21. If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
#22. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Selma Lagerlof
#23. Ever the charmer, eh, Braden? (Sin)
Hold your tongue, Sin. (Braden)
I would, but with my luck, one of your giant Scottish bugs would land on it. Besides, it makes my hand wet and pruney when I do that. (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#24. I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.
Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.
But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.
Jen Crane
#25. When the science speaks, religion must keep quiet! When the master speaks, hold your tongue, don't make a noise!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. A flush of anger crimsoned the old lady's pale face. It looked dead no longer. "Hold your tongue," she said. "You are rude." And Miss Gladwyn did hold her tongue, but nothing else, for she was laughing all over.
George MacDonald
#27. For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, 'Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork.
Mervyn Peake
#28. Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just
Sappho
#29. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato The Younger
#30. First," he said dispassionately, "hold your tongue. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him. Smile a lot. Make him feel big. Tell him how wonderful he is, and wait on him.
Harper Lee