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“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”

Said Spirit Simple Talking Doubt Too Much Worst Holy Speech Perfection Faults Tongue Gentle Holy Spirit Attachment Virtuous Defects Charitable Amiable Talking Too Much

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.”

Children Mother Education Higher Our Children Tongue Educated Your Children Branches Mother Tongue

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.”

World White Wall Taste Depth Lips Glasses Corners Tongue Beer Brown Salt Wet Belly Brass Foam Swallowing

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.”

May Made Certain Reading Bits Poet Cat Tongue Bags Suspicion Daft

Author:Dylan Thomas

“It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.”

Humanity Women Lines Dangerous Draws Weakness Crosses Mere Tongue Daring Taunting

Author:Anne Spencer

“No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.”

Pleasure Tongue Checks Scandal One Love Rebuke

Author:St. Jerome

“I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.”

Knows Age Succeed Deeds Tongue Noise Dust Creeds

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very words... In considering all these things, I preferred Christ. And the words of God were made sweet as honeycombs to me, and I cried after knowledge and lifted up my voice for wisdom. There was moreover the moderation of anger, the curbing of the tongue, the restraint of the eyes, the discipline of the belly, and the trampling under foot of the glory which clings to the earth.”

Made Eye Earth Voice Christ Feet Sweet Discipline Fame Glory Property Tongue Saved Word Of God Offering Cried Considering Restraint Moderation Belly Discipleship

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.”

Inspirational Writing Action Tongue Checks Cash

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.”

Thinking Want Made Shows Feelings Fans Drink Moon Cat Tongue Seconds Tied Acid Ripped Less Is More Itchy

Author:Matt Groening

“That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.”

Done Dark Tongue Cheeks Dark Humor Tongue In Cheek

Author:El-P

“America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.”

World Should Has Beens America Found Land Tongue New World Continents New Life

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”

“Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!”

Tongue Kalashnikov

Author:Steve Fowler

“The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.”

Thinking Home Moving Color Truth Is Logic Skins Tongue

Author:Maya Angelou

“I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.”

Dream Romance Sides Five Fool Solitude Essence Rose Tongue Fats Hips Flames Pockets Cheeks Nails Satin Musk Mink Cognac

Book:Jazz fan looks back

Source: Jazz fan looks back

“H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.”

Ifs Long Said Language Term Gone Tree Horror Tough Tongue Lists Drunk Rats Ruined Wraps Dictionary Supplies Slang Hammered Limerick Being Drunk American Language

Author:Bill Barich

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

Virtue Tears Hair Tongue Tolerance Bites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Facts are God’s native tongue.”

Facts Tongue Native

Book:Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

“And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?”

Whole Girl Boys Economy Feet Tongue

Author:Julie Berry

“It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.”

“A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.”

Nations Citizens Tongue Universality

Author:Giuseppe Mazzini

“By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.”

Poet Tongue Mourning

Author:W. H. Auden

“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.”

World Writing Eye Today Language Fiction Responsibility Vision Poverty Roles Awareness Ears Increase Tongue Senses Deprived Poorest Cripples

Author:Anais Nin

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

“I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.”

Struggle Tongue Lifelong Impatient Sharp Tongue

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”

Ifs Tongue There Is No God

Book:The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections

Source: The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections

“As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.”

Ifs Knows Feels Lasts Taste Glasses Tongue Instant Throat Liquid Alchemy Champagne Elixir Elixir Of Life

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.”

Song Found Winning Wish Failing Tongue My Wish

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.”

Stills High School Pops Tongue Cheeks Sincerely Pop Music Jaded Tongue In Cheek

Author:Girl Talk

“Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.”

Looks Speak Walks Feet Tongue

Author:Anjem Choudary

“I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.”

Knows Littles Bits Fronts Little Bit Musician Albums Crowds Tongue Jealous Tied Tongue Tied

Author:Judd Apatow

“We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.”

Ifs Should Kids Winning Fun Loses Worry Car Losing Tongue Coaches Ice Having Fun Cheeks Cream Bent Ice Cream Win Or Lose Tongue In Cheek Just Have Fun

Author:Bode Miller

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”

Men Money Wife Birth Fame Fairs Lips Tongue Settling Heavenly Persuasion Venus Dames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?”

Art Soul Facts Turns Poor Secret Teach Fire Stupid Drink Wine Folks Boxes Burden Tongue Coward Bowls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?”

Ifs Government Evil Attention Tongue Vain Truth Revealed

Book:Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life

Source: Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life

“Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.”

Thinking Stones Tongue Forgiven

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.”

Men Habit Tongue Expenses Compliment

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces

“Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.”

Should Animal Tongue Guts Foul

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.”

Men Giving Children Reason Found Names Speak Language Sound Fingers Tongue Gestures Recourse

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”

Mind Wells Heart May Stills Faces Wish Secret Watches Citizens Tongue Cheerful Spears Good Wishes

Author:Solon

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.”

Tongue Laziness

Author:Evan Esar

“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

People Two Form Mother Three Language Privilege Tongue Helpless Foreign Language Mother Tongue

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.”

Names Land Praise Creator Tongue Arise Redeemer

Author:Isaac Watts

“Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.”

Stills Hands Busy Tongue Gossip Hairdresser

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.”

Humans Eye Lying Human Beings Conscience Skins Ears Legs Tongue Noses Vietnam Twists Bombers

Book:Out Loud

Source: Out Loud

“Many a man's tongue broke his nose.”

Men Communication Tongue Broke Noses

Book:Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain

Source: Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain

“A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.”

Taste Mouths Sitting Tongue Contact Bowls Flavor Pudding Fridges

Book:This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

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