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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. – William Shakespeare
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. – F Scott
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. – Publilius Syrus
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. – American Indian Proverb
The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it. – Unknown
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been' – John Greenleaf Whittier
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. – Maxims of Ptahhotep
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. – Peter Drucker
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. – The Talmud
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. – Laertius Diogenes
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. – American Indian Proverb
Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue). – Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. – Giuseppe Garibaldi
2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. – Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
A man's ruin lies in his tongue. – Egyptian Proverb
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. – Benjamin Franklin
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. – Thomas Nashe
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust, The War with Catiline
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. – Miguel de Cervantes
Better the foot slip than the tongue. – French Proverb

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