The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting.
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.
The tongue that concedes will not wear out; obstinate teeth fall out.
Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick even more.
I gave so much advice that hair grew on my tongue.
Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for.
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
He who controls his tongue, saves his head.
I was thinking of murder, mutilation and dessert like Ignacia Sandoval’s instructions for delectable empanadas made of minced mother-in-law’s tongue (said to induce peace and harmony in your household), or the gonads of your cheating husband (a s...
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it�...
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would sa...
Dr. King Schultz: Oh, Monsiuer Candie, you can't imagine what it's like not to hear your mother tongue in four years. Calvin Candie: Well hell, I can't imagine two weeks in Boston! Stephen: [Stephen laughs out loud] "Two weeks in Boston!" Monsiuer Ca...
Mama Fratelli: The only thing we serve here is tongue! You boys like tongue?
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, wh...
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
The teeth often bite the tongue, still the two stay together.
If you take your tongue to the pawnshop, you can't redeem it later.
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
