Tongues



Tongues are a muscular organs on the floors of the mouths of most vertebrates, which manipulate food for mastication. The tongue is the primary organ of taste, and in humans a secondary function of the tongue is phonetic articulation.

Quotes

 * Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
 * Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary


 * A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.
 * Ali, A Hundred Sayings


 * Speak to me in many voices Make them all sound like one Let me see your sacred mysteries Reveal to me the Unknown Tongue.
 * And then she took her father's razor And watched it cut into her palm She put her hand up to her mouth To taste the blood so holy and warm.
 * Unknown Tongue Cultösaurus Erectus, by Blue Oyster Cult, lyrics by A. Bouchard, David Roter


 * Better the feet slip than the tongue.
 * George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).


 * Most of the sins of the children of Adam are on their tongues.
 * Muhammad, al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr 10300


 * Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
 * William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act II, scene 4, line 23.


 * Tongues I'll hang on every tree, That shall civil sayings show.
 * William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act III, scene 2, line 135.


 * My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
 * William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, scene 2, line 18.


 * You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 3, line 126.


 * My tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp.
 * William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 3, line 161.


 * The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.
 * William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 329.


 * Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?
 * Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire I, line 281.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 808-09.


 * The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
 * Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Manciple's Tale, line 18,213.


 * The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
 * Ecclesiasticus, XXVIII. 17. 18.


 * He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
 * Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Psalms, XXXI.


 * The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
 * Homer, The Odyssey, Book IV, line 1,092. Pope's translation.


 * The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.
 * James, III. 8.


 * Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
 * Job, XX. 12.


 * Lingua mali pars pessima servi.
 * The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
 * Juvenal, Satires (early 2nd century), IX. 120.


 * I should think your tongue had broken its chain!
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part IV.


 * In her tongue is the law of kindness.
 * Proverbs, XXXI, 26.


 * From the strife of tongues.
 * Psalms, XXXI, 20.


 * Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
 * Psalms, XXXIV, 13.


 * My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
 * Psalms, XLV, 1.


 * Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
 * James I of Scotland, Ballad of good Counsel, quoted by Scott in Fair Maid of Perth, Chapter XXV.


 * So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kind of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep; To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,  He had the dialect and different skill,  Catching all passions in his craft of will.
 * William Shakespeare, Lover's Complaint, line 120.

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