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TONGUE quotes
The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man, and his worst: with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.
Scholars are men of peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than a razor; their pens carry further, and give a louder report than thunder. I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in the fury of a merciless pen.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
This I always religiously observed, as a rule, says one, never to chide my husband before company, nor to prattle abroad of miscarriages at home. What passes between two people is much easier made up than when once it has taken air.
The Chinese have a saying, that an unlucky word dropped.from the tongue, cannot be brought back again by a coach and six horses.
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener and sharper with constant use.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
No one will tell a tale of scandal, except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to check and rebuke the detracting tongue, by showing that you do not listen to it but with displeasure.
By examining the tongue, physicians find out the diseases of the body; and philosophers, the diseases of the mind and heart.
If thou desire to be wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
The cure of an evil tongue must be done at the heart. The weights and wheels are there, and the clock strikes according to their motion. A guileful heart makes a guileful tongue and lips. It is the work-house where is the forge of deceits and slanders; and the tongue is only the outer shop where they are vended, and the door of it. Such ware as is made within, such, and no other, can come out.
There are but ten precepts of the law of God, and two of them, so far as concerns the outward organ and vent of the sins there forbidden, are bestowed on the tongue, as though it was ready to fly out both against God and man, if not thus bridled.
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from a sword; for the latter affects only the body, the former the spirit.
Give not thy tongue too great liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is, like the sword in the scabbard, thine. If vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart.
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by their vices.
No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
In the use of the tongue God hath distinguished us from beasts, and by the well cr ill using it we are distinguished from one another; and therefore, though silence be innocent at death, yet it is rather the state of death than life.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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