| "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 |
| "The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." »The Talmud |
| "A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb |
| "My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged." »Euripides |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |