#tongue

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

— Washington Irving

#constant #edged #grows #keener #never

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. ↗

— Washington Irving

#only #sharper #tongue #tool #use

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#body #groucho #had #his #made

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#days #endeavors #fire #intolerance #modern

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit. ↗

— Peter Steele

#bit #drink #effect #i #little

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ↗

— Richard Steele

#destruction #engines #fire #gossip #slow

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#gray hairs #hairs #hold #signs #speak

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts ↗

— Stephen King

#it #lisp #stutter #therapy #tongue-twister

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#fate #find #french #i #me