#tongue

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. ↗

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. ↗

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#change #does #enough #love #need

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#books #brooks #everything #exempt #finds

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

— George Bancroft

#disappointed #nine #out #person #ten

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#am #best #convinced #general #his

Give thy thoughts no tongue. ↗