Tongue Quotes
On sharp words and the edge they never lose.
Several lines here return to the same image: a sharp tongue behaves like a tool that only grows keener the more it gets used, unlike a temper, which is said never to soften with age. This page collects quotes built around that comparison. Related reading continues on Speech quotes.
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Emotion Quotes
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.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Expression Quotes
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives...
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue...
Identity Quotes
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the...
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.
From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.
Speech Quotes
English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.
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The repetition across these quotes suggests how often writers have reached for the same warning about careless words. For nearby themes, try Emotion quotes or Expression quotes.
