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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. -- Davy Crockett
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. -- John Donne
Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. -- Richard Petty
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness. -- Robert Mondavi
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. -- Bela Lugosi
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. -- Martin H. Fischer
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. -- Rabindranath Tagore
How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend. -- Nolan Bushnell
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. -- Steve Carell
It's like an angel crying on your tongue. -- Bruno Heller
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. -- Terri Farley
Make that money run like honey on your tongue. -- Alice Cooper
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. -- Samuel Johnson
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue. -- William Shakespeare
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. -- Pythagoras
Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick. -- Sid Bolon
But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. -- Rumi
if onlyour tongueswere made of glasshow muchmore carefulwe would bewhen wespeak -- Shaun Shane
Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater -- Ted Dekker
Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye. -- Waylon Jennings
Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques -- N.D. Wilson
One single word and I swear I'll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue. -- Pauletta Pearson Washington
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame. -- Maruf Karkhi
You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue -- Emeli Sande
A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower. -- Rumi
Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue. -- Kate Langley Bosher
Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash. -- Neal A. Maxwell
When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give -- Ibn Ata Allah
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. -- John Ford
Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue. -- James A. Owen
You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. -- Carol Ann Duffy
Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue. -- Mark Gungor
Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. -- Alice Hoffman
The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue -- Frank Bettger
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. -- Josemaria Escriva
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago. -- Erica Goros
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago. -- Erica Goros
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God. -- Cato the Younger
To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. -- William Shakespeare
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct. -- Saint Augustine
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Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more. -- Selma LagerlÃ¶f
Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? -- Amy Tan
be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well.. -- Jinnul Jr.
I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue. -- Busta Rhymes
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue. -- Franz Kafka
Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love! -- Mary Borden
When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. -- Edward Norton
This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. -- Sarah Kay
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? -- Leonard Ravenhill
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand. -- Ray Bradbury
Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving - -- Thomas Harris
At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it. -- Yasmin Mogahed
When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here. -- Kate Tempest
One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same. -- Nehemiah Adams
red the colour of the rosered the colour of your lipsred the colour of your tongue.red the colour of your heartred the colour of your passion -- Marina G. Roussou
red the colour of the rosered the colour of your lipsred the colour of your tongue.red the colour of your heartred the colour for your passion -- Marina G. Roussou
Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say. -- Ann Landers
God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe. -- Sathya Sai Baba
You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes. -- Lisa Kleypas
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands. -- Nigel Slater
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey! -- Dr. Seuss
I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot. -- Mignon McLaughlin
You can't swallow and think about your tongue. If you think about your tongue, you've got a giant piece of meat in your mouth and that's a terrible feeling. -- Stephen Colbert
My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday -- John Walter Bratton
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush. -- Henri Matisse
Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet -- Karen Marie Moning
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. -- Lord Chesterfield
Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying. -- Jonathan Carroll
You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid! -- Gideon Defoe
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on. -- Paul Beatty
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. -- Alice Hoffman
"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!". -- Henny Youngman
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -- Alice Miller
The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths. -- Gayle Forman
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue. -- Khalil Gibran
My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman," it said. "I'll be the judge of that," warned Granny, and added, "Don't call me woman." "Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly. -- Terry Pratchett
Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve? -- Ben Harper
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just -- Sappho
How does it taste? Carter wondered.Zia smiledStick out your tongue.To answer Carter's question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires.Ugh. I spit a blue gob of order and harmony into the fountain. -- Rick Riordan
The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off. -- Chris Hadfield
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions") -- Neil Gaiman
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song. -- Emily Saliers
Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work. -- Taraji P. Henson
Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize. -- Abdullah, Son of Masud
The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know. -- Lauren Oliver
I you're in prayer, take care of your heart. If you're eating, take cre of your throat. If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes. If you among people, take care of your tongue. -- Luqman
Are you having performance issues?" I asked in surprise. "Bite your tongue," Vlad said, with a snort. "I was seeing if Dermot understood sign language, but from the look on his face, it seems not. -- Jeaniene Frost
I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.Don't make enemies, I told myself.Swallow your pride.Hold your tongue.But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues. -- Jen Crane
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life. -- Marie Howe
I hated kissing Zoe Saldana too! I was like, "Take your tongue out of my mouth, please. Your boyfriend is standing right there." Most people think kissing beautiful costars must be great. But it's always awkward, man. -- Orlando Bloom
Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on. She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?" "Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know. -- Nalini Singh
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind. -- Bodhidharma
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity. -- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
How does it taste?" Carter wondered. Zia smiled. "Stick out your tongue." To answer Carter's question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. "Ugh." I spit a blue gob of "order and harmony" into the fountain. -- Rick Riordan
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. -- William Shakespeare
Don't die with the music on your tongue unsung!Don't die with the apps in your mind undesigned!Don't die with the books in your head unpublished!Don't die with the sermons in your heart unpreached!Live well and die well! -- Israelmore Ayivor
There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your tongue was spared by the darkness. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. -- Alan Watts
I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while. -- Jello Biafra
I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.' -- Krysten Ritter
Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue. -- Shannon Hale
Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage. -- e. e. cummings
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick. -- Yelawolf
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it? -- Jodi Picoult

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