| "Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow." »Danish proverb |
| "The pen is the tongue of the mind." »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 |
| "My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged." »Euripides |
| "Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb |
| "The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." »The Talmud |
| "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue." »Jean Baptiste Rousseau |
| "We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less." »Laertius Diogenes |
| "It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." »Greek Proverb |
| "Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit." »Jeremy Taylor |
| "The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it." »Unknown |
| "No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue." »Sir Philip Sidney |
| "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." »Publilius Syrus |
| "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 |
| "The wise man has long ears and a short tongue." »German proverb |
| "Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress." »Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides |
| "While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head." »William Shakespeare |
| "How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter" »Woody Allen |
| "Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others." »Arnold Bennett |
| "I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." »Cato the Elder |
| "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it." »William Shakespeare |
| "Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone." »Proverbs 2515 Bible |
| "Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." »Sallust |
| "Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator." »Cicero |
| "Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong |
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