Tongue Proverbs

Sayings about Tongue

The tongue can paint what the eye can’t see. ~ Chinese Proverbs

With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair. ~ Persian Proverb

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~ German Proverbs

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~ American Indian Proverb

Sweet tongues buy horses on credit. ~ Hawaiian Proverbs

The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it. ~ The Talmud

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. ~ Jewish Proverbs

The tongue that belongs to a fake friend is sharper than a knife. ~ Argentine Proverbs

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. ~ Saying

Teach your tongue to say “I don’t know” instead of to make up something. ~ Jewish Proverb

The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue. ~ Malaysian Proverbs

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. ~ Saying

Quotations about Tongue

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. ~ Washington Irving

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. ~ Xenocrates of Chalcedon

When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. ~ Rumi

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A long tongue shortens life. ~ Saying

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The pen is the tongue of the mind. ~ Horace

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi

The eyes those silent tongues of love. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

The tongue is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. ~ Anne Seaton

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~ Voltaire

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ~ Matthew Hale

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ~ John Ford

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. ~ Mao Zedong

I have a very sharp tongue, I’m very impatient, and it’s a lifelong struggle. ~ Karen Armstrong

Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner. ~ Turkish Proverb

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold his tongue. ~ Italian Proverb

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. ~ Davy Crockett

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. ~ Washington Irving

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. ~ Josh Billings

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. ~ Francis Quarles

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ~ Peace Pilgrim

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. ~ Euripides

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ~ Washington Irving

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~ Publilius Syrus

Give thy thoughts no tongue. ~ William Shakespeare

This is courtship all the world over – the man all tongue; the woman all ears. ~ Emily Murphy

Those who are determined and control their mind, body, and tongue are indeed well controlled. ~ Buddha

Violence of the tongue is very real-sharper than any knife. ~ Mother Teresa

All parts of the human body get tired eventually – except the tongue. ~ Konrad Adenauer

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ~ George Bancroft

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ~ Mark Twain

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~ Adam Clarke

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. ~ Paul Tillich

Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat. ~ Saying

I will speak with a straight tongue. ~ Chief Joseph

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he’ll learn fast enough to speak. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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

For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love. ~ John Donne

It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. ~ George W. Bush

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ~ C. C. Phelps

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