Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: tongue pen sword quotable
Okay, let's put this another way―if what you're about to say wouldn't look good permanently engraved on your tombstone, bite your tongue.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: words speech tongue criticism richelle comments richelle-goodrich remarks unkind-words
Mattie sticks out her tongue, and I take that as my dismissal.
Jill HathawayYet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?
J.M. CoetzeeAn aversion came over me that we feel for all the mutilated. Why is that so, do you think? Because they put us in mind of what we would rather forget: how easily, at the stroke of a sword or a knife, wholeness and beauty are forever undone? Perhaps. But toward you I felt a deeper revulsion. I could not put out of mind the softness of the tongue, its softness and wetness, and the fact that it does not live in the light; also how helpless it is before the knife, once the barrier of teeth has been passed. The tongue is like the heart, in that way, is it not?
J.M. CoetzeeFrustrated, Ria threw down her napkin and rose to her feet. "If he's that great, you marry him. I will not marry a man who hasn't even attempted to French-kiss me the entire year we've been 'dating.'"
Her parents yelled her name, but Jet's incredulous voice drowned them out. "Seriously? Not even a little tongue? You're right-- dude is lame.
If there's one area of me that the devil's got a hold of, it's my tongue.
Stefne MillerTags: life tongue struggle cuss devil-s-hold
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Mikhail BulgakovI think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
Anne RiceTags: tongue french english savor vampire merrick vampire-chronicles accents accen
Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.
Jazz FeylynnTags: communication language tongue how-many jazz speaking tongue-in-cheek twist feylynn jazz-feylynn around-the-tongue how-many-twists speaking-difficulties tonge-in-cheek tongue-a-twist tongue-language tongue-problem tongue-tied tongue-twisted tongue-twister tongue-twister-twist tongue-twisters twist-a-tongue twisting-tongue
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