"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman." »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1
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"Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like thy sword in thy scabbard; if vented, the sword is in another?s hand.* If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue." »Francis Quarles
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"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made." »Carrie Jacobs Bond
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"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold
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"The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities." »Eric Hoffer
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."" »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue." »Dolly Payne Todd Madison
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"A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been." »John Greenleaf Whittier
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!"" »John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." »Greek Proverb
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"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue." »Hesiod
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"The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." »The Talmud
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"My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged." »Euripides
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"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit." »Jeremy Taylor
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"The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment." »Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible
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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf
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"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue." »Jean Baptiste Rousseau
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