Quotes of: Tongues Keyword

Silence is the best answer to the stupid. The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue.

Saudi Arabian

Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Turkish

He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot.

Yugoslavian

If everything that came from your tongue were to come into your hands, then every beggar would be a pasha.

Turkish

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous mass of post-human organic circuitry. Cyperpunk is my mother tongue. My love is a man-machine interface gun.

Dawn of the Algorithm

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Rumi

There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man Wished to sing, And with that the singer was content.

Stephen Crane

Don't let your tongue or your paintbrush wag your tail when they are making up an inventory.

Chinese

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

William Shatner

The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the United States of America. It sprang from the German tongue spoken by the Teutons, who came over to Britain aft...

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Mama Fratelli: Four waters. Is that all? Mouth, Mikey: [everyone else says yes] Mouth: No! I want the veal scalopini. Mikey: Shut up Mouth. Mouth: I want a good fettucini alfredo. I want a bottle of fettucine, a 1981. Mouth: [makes a kissing sound w...

The Goonies

I will speak with a straight tongue.

Chief Joseph

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.

Yiddish

If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Schwartz: Hey, smart ass. I asked my old man about sticking your tongue to a flagpole in the winter, and he says that it'll freeze right to the pole, just like I told ya. Flick: Ah, baloney. What would your old man know about anything? Schwartz: He k...

A Christmas Story

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.

Greek