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We've found 74 quotes for 'tongue-in-cheek' (0.194 seconds):



"My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from." »Nancy Astor 
"Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow." »Danish proverb 
"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 
"Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick." »Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi" 
"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 
"The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes 
"Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been." »John Greenleaf Whittier 
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes 
"Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." »American Indian Proverb 
"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue." »Dolly Payne Todd Madison 
"A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb 
"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb 
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!"" »
John Greenleaf Whittier 
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier 
"It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." »Greek Proverb 
"The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." »The Talmud 
"Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue." »Hesiod 
"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 
"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." »American Indian Proverb 
"My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged." »Euripides 
"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit." »Jeremy Taylor 
"Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue." »Jean Baptiste Rousseau 
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress." »Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides 
"The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it." »Unknown 
"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." »Publilius Syrus 
"No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue." »Sir Philip Sidney 
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf 
"While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head." »William Shakespeare 
"We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less." »Laertius Diogenes 
"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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