Top 100 Tongue Words Quotes
#1. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Roger Ascham
#2. The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.
Rufus Wainwright
#3. The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water around us.
Sue Monk Kidd
#4. Wise Bear said something in his own language, mouth twisting in disgust as if the words stained his tongue. He caught Vaelin's enquiring gaze and provided a terse translation, "Cat People.
Anthony Ryan
#5. You can change your world by changing your words ... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
#6. My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
Jim Crace
#7. But in all His relationships, God reaches for man. Reaches for you who have fallen and scraped your heart raw, for you who feel the shame of words that have snaked off your tongue and poisoned corners of your life, for you who keep trying to cover up pain with perfectionism.
Ann Voskamp
#8. If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.
Jane Roberts
#9. Interplanetary dust, I repeated, liking the feel of the words on my tongue.
Jenny Han
#11. Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,
Which dwells but in the tongue!
John Webster
#13. My tongue is a scalding whiplash. I'm tired of hurting others with it, the way they have hurt me. I've always despised the practice, so once more I'll bite my words back, though the injustice served deserves each backlash of every one.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#14. The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
"Wangoballwime?"
"Sorry?" said Cho.
"D'you - d'you want to go to the ball with me?" said Harry.
Why did he have to go red now? Why?
J.K. Rowling
#15. Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Emma Watson
#16. To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#17. I'm falling in love with you. As the words left his mouth, his lips pressed to mine, giving me the most intense and explosive kiss I had ever had. With the coldness of his lips and the warmth of his tongue beneath mine I saw fireworks and felt them through every part of my body.
Magan Vernon
#18. I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
Yelawolf
#19. The words are on my tongue - the rounded lumps of them, shining like the marbles beneath the tree.
Sue Monk Kidd
#20. To behold Queen Gwenhwyvar and the Lady of the Lake together was to peer too long into the sun's brilliant dazzle, to feel the heart lurch in the breast for yearning, to have the words stolen from the tongue before the lips could speak them.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#21. Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.
Chigozie Obioma
#22. It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.
A.J. Darkholme
#23. Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.
Anonymous
#24. Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
Alice Hoffman
#25. The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. From the hills in the early dawn,
Small, thin, mist-wreathed, she came upon him;
Hair sodden to the brow,
Eyes like agates,
Lips apart, tongue flicking at words frozen in her head.
Gliding to his feet,
She caught his hand and said
'come help me, mister, or she'll be dead.
Catherine Cookson
#28. Vasic said the words on Aden's tongue. The Arrows expect mercy from no one.
Nalini Singh
#30. Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered ... sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks ...
Ray Bradbury
#31. The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.
Pat Williams
#32. Think before you speak. Your own words can cure or curse you. The power in your tongue can spill blessings or lessons.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#33. Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
Cornelia Funke
#34. Hurting someone with your tongue is just as bad as beating them with your fists.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
David Jeremiah
#36. I thank God for giving me the open heart to accept people that come to my life without judging them. I thank Him to give me an ear and patience to listen and to give me the tongue and words of wisdom to speak life as much as I can not to condemn them. It's a such rewarding feeling.
Euginia Herlihy
#37. Clean your Tongue with your Words, not with tongue cleaner
Samar Sudha
#38. She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but "fuck" was one of them - the very word she'd hoped to hear.
George R R Martin
#39. My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#40. Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
Andy Partridge
#41. Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.
Vera Nazarian
#42. I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
#43. The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18 NIV)
Scotty Smith
#44. Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.
Confucius
#45. Bridget felt like she'd been sucked into a game of Clue. Delaney did it. In the football field. With an iron bar. Again, she had to force the words to die on her tongue.
Samantha Blake
#46. A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
W. H. Auden
#47. A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head
Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.
Carol Ann Duffy
#48. The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.
Monique Truong
#49. Tongue and expression plays a big role in twisting the words and make the life hell.
Kishore Bansal
#50. She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave ...
William Watson
#51. Stretch out your tongue and let the words drip on the world like savage shooting muses, never, never to be forgotten, if once fallen on earth, they stand in glittery defloration.
Laura Gentile
#52. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
#53. A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.
Anthony Liccione
#54. There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#55. I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.
Lauren Oliver
#56. I crossed oceans for you,
Turned over every rock,
Climbed the highest mountains,
Holding on to the words you said,
Reliving your touch inside my head,
The taste of you on the tip of my tongue,
Only to be left with you as only a fantasy inside my head.
LeAnne Mechelle
#57. Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#58. I love you. The words are always right there on the tip of my naughty tongue. I swallow them back like I need to and say something much more practical instead. "Have you ever been acquainted with your prostate?
Sarina Bowen
#59. Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#60. In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David Byrne
#61. The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
Homer
#62. There's so much poison dripping from her words that I could swear she's been soaking her tongue in arsenic
A.G. Howard
#63. You've got the words to change a nation
but you're biting your tongue
Emeli Sande
#64. When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.
Connilyn Cossette
#65. 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.
William Drummond
#66. If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
#67. He did not drink or do drugs or smoke cigarettes or wear black eyeliner or stay out late or get bad grades or pierce his tongue or have the words "KATHERINE LUVA 4 LIFE" tattoed across his back.
John Green
#68. Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..
Jinnul Jr.
#69. Words cannot only be made ... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#70. You sure you can handle big woman chat, pickney? You sure you ready for that journey? You think good before you answer. Because some people about to forget that me be the head bloodcloth nigger in here. Now, go peel two potato and don't draw me tongue out in this place.
Marlon James
#71. Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
Robert Herrick
#72. Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
#73. Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more than jig and cadence in my words. I am of stronger fiber than you think. If there comes a time for proof I shall not fail.
Charles S. Brooks
#74. The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
Martial
#75. Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Tacitus
#76. Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.
Thomas Hardy
#77. Logan. Oh, Logan, that's so..." A moan caught her words and stole them away. "So lovely."
"You're lovely." He kissed her just where he knew she needed it. "Beautiful." Made a tender pass of his tongue. "Perfect.
Tessa Dare
#78. It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.
Daniel J. Rice
#79. I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
William Congreve
#80. words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)
Lisa Bevere
#81. In the old tongue which had once been his world's lingua franca, most words, like khef and ka, had many meanings. The word char, however - char as in Charlie the Choo-Choo - had only one. Char meant death.
Stephen King
#82. 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.
Plutarch
#83. Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.
Kiki Archer
#84. You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.
Gena Showalter
#85. Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
Marie Howe
#86. Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded away. It wheedled into her mind and her words, leaving a humid vapor around her heart and a thick fuzzy taste on her tongue.
Brandy Heineman
#87. You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#88. I know there is no finer thing than your dew on my tongue." Dew? We'd have to talk about love words in the future.
Ruby Dixon
#89. This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#90. What is in the heart rolls off the tongue, the weight of your words can be as sharp as a sword or as light as a feather." 03/19/2016
Suzanne Pavlick
#91. In 2005, the Global Language Monitor - a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests - issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top
Kevin Dutton
#92. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}
Richard Mc Sweeney
#93. I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy
a little boy!
Dale Carnegie
#94. Wordstruck is exactly what I was - and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.
Robert MacNeil
#95. What did the poet say? That the saddest words of tongue or pen were what might have been?
Charles Todd
#96. He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.
Robert James Waller
#97. Suddenly there were all sorts of words crowding on Zane's tongue, and he couldn't get a single one out, much less three that would prove he knew the best thing to happen to him in his entire life lay right there in his arms.
Abigail Roux
#98. But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
Robert Greene
#99. I carried those more carefully, whispering them to myself, letting them sit on my tongue like candied ginger. They sounded like words used to cast a spell.
Kay Honeyman
#100. The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.
Thiruvalluvar
