#tongue

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. ↗

— John Donne

#hold #love #me #sake #tongue

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ↗

— John Ford

#heart #message #speak #tongue #well

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. ↗

— Marilyn French

#art #different #emotions #events #fix

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

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#eventually #except #get #human #human body

Love's tongue is in his eyes. ↗

— John Fletcher

#his #love #tongue

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. ↗

— William F. DeVault

#quote #tattoo #tongue

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. ↗

— Josh Billings

#best time #bust #feel #hold #must

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate