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The human tongue is a beast that few can master. -- Robert Greene
The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. -- John Green
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. -- Tennessee Williams
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body. -- Teresa of Avila
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. -- John Green
There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth. -- Toba Beta
...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief. -- Robert Greene
The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man. -- George Steiner
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. -- Hernan Cortes
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. -- Hernan Cortes
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. -- Johann Georg Hamann
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. -- Konrad Adenauer
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth. -- Andy Serkis
It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain. -- Mary Roach
All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't. -- Konrad Adenauer
The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking]. -- Evan Esar
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue. -- Jimmy Santiago Baca
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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