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“No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to our souls. He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other pledge than Himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him.”

Should Soul Jesus Wish Christ Alive Greatness Bears Jesus Christ Tongue Servant Remembrance Pledge Headstone

Author:Peter of Alcantara

“[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

Heart President Tongue Disposition Third Time

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.”

Firsts Done Language Albums Tongue Native Grammy Spanish Language

Author:Gloria Estefan

“And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?”

Knows World May Language Nations Strange Communication Glory Gains Tongue Stores Treasure Shore Accents Refined Unknowing

Author:Samuel Daniel

“I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.”

“'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.”

Soul Tongue My Soul Swearing

Book:Hippolytus and the Bacchae

Source: Hippolytus and the Bacchae

“For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.”

Thinking Mother Emotion Magic Tongue Mother Tongue

Author:Kailash Kher

“I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.”

“I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.”

Used Language Cities Four Grew Grew Up Tongue Grandfather Surgeons Fluent Madras

Author:Aravind Adiga

“Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.”

Men Wise Fool Tongue

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet are not familiar with God’s ways – when his tongue is seldom or never used in prayer and praise – when his eyes are blind to the beauty of the kingdom of heaven – when his mind is full of the world, and has no room for spiritual things – when these marks are to be found in a man the word of the Bible is the right word to use about him, and that word is, ‘Dead.’”

Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity

“Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.”

Self Eye Values Praise Tongue Falsehood Self Praise

Author:Arnold Bennett

“Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.”

Mind Success Loss Shame Disappointment Tongue Topics Disappoint Supplies Disappointment Love Disappointment In Friends

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?”

World Passion India Lips Population Illness Tongue Reports Midst Spain Vigilant Bora Bora

Author:Lauren Groff

“Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.”

Sound Thousand Ten Ears Tongue Uncertain Rumor

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.”

Reason Tongue Hollow

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.”

Fall Evil Voice Safe Tongue Mortals Mute

Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

“A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.”

Men Spirit Active Tongue Wit Fierce Carriages Haughty Nimble

Author:John Winthrop

“My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.”

Children Mouths Tongue Teeth My Children Womb Babysitter

Author:Enya

“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”

Asks Silence Tongue

Book:Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

Source: Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy

“I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.”

Speak Tongue Cute Speak English

Author:Anna Held

“In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.”

Talking Teacher Students Listening Mark Tongue Teeth Classroom Terrific Outstanding

Author:Alfie Kohn

“A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”

Tongue Wounds Heal Knives Turkish

Book:Orphan Sky

Source: Orphan Sky

“Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.”

Looks Book Speak Language Tongue Reputation Scandal Printed Libel Printed Books

Author:Jonathan Swift

“What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?”

Tongue Teeth Smooth

Author:Jocelyn Murray

“As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being”

Knows Humans Language Human Beings Politician Tongue Linguistics

Author:Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

“Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?”

Should Years Stills Names Century Months Tongue Beer Merit Infant Bass Guinness

Book:Fly Leaves

Source: Fly Leaves

“'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.”

Real Facts Hands Fun Streets Lays Tongue Ice Bags Als Cream Ice Cream Chips Potatoes Positively Cones Potato Chips Ice Cream Cones

Author:Paul Feig

“There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth. He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind; ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country hers refused to ope. Ungrateful land, to its own injury Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct, That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice, That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.”

Men Wells Doe Country Eye Fall Speak Heaven Teach Land Mankind Easier Thousand Tongue Proof Realms Midst Gates Burned Smallest Exile Parallels Lofty Splendor Eulogy Ungrateful Sinfulness Ascending

Author:Michelangelo

“Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.”

Form Purpose House Common Written Broken Speech Tongue Bores Flexible Delivery Broken Up

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.”

Source: Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)

“A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.”

Said Hands Wish Written Truth Is Sight Tongue Curse Miscellaneous Blur Cramps

Author:Theodor Haecker

“The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.”

Feels War Country Nations Consequence Sticks Tongue Favors Horrible These Days Bombs Provoking Nuclear Power Small Nations

Author:E. B. White

“Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.”

Spread Tongue Proof Poison Malice Malicious

Author:Moliere

“The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.”

Men Made Wise Members Argument Tongue Bitter Aliens Spite This Day Honour Senate Countrymen Burial

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.”

Littles Share Pride Tongue

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.”

Men Tongue Manners Compliment Manhood Courtesy Valor

Book:Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet

Source: Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet

“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”

Giving Mean Tongue Familiar Vulgar Polonius

Author:William Shakespeare

“Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”

Giving Felt Messages News Ill Tongue Host Gracious Tidings

Author:William Shakespeare

“He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”

Doe Tongue Wounds Flattery

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.”

Wish Tongue Disorder Curb Sufferers

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.”

Ifs Ten Mouths Gold Greed Tongue Digging

Author:Ovid

“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.”

Ifs Men Humans Would Be Desire Speak Teach Difficulty Silent Affair Tongue Moderates

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.”

May Littles Enough Whole Evil Hours Sin Space Virtue Fame Tongue Whole Life Blast Slander

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”

Knows Silence Know How Virtue Quiet Tongue Primaries

Author:Cato the Younger

“You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.”

Source: The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars

“Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.”

Light Speak Grief Sorrow Bounds Tongue

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.”

Want Looks Kind Bird Mouths Tongue Bites Foxes Flocks Fling Herons Magpies

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.”

People Ifs Hands Order Heard Conversation Tongue Buttons Unwilling Miscellaneous

Author:Lord Chesterfield