#tongue

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#germany #hold #new #right #teeth

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #public-opinion #reputation #rumor

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. ↗

— George W. Bush

#going #quick #sharp #tongue #year

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. ↗

— Joe Namath

#amongst #coaches #football #general #old

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cold #completely #day #every #how

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#lost #must #power #speak #tongue

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#age #all things #comes #death #easier

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. ↗

— Buddha

#drawing #kills #knife #like #sharp

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth