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"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." »Cicero
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"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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"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life." »Oscar Wilde
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"Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself." »Anonymous
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"We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style." »Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
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"Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it." »Paul Klee
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"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love." »L. O. Baird
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"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." »Jef Raskin
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"An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free." »William Bolitho
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"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them." »Philo Judaeus
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"I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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"The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes
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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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"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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"Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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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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"The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." »The Talmud
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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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