#tongue

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RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.


William Shakespeare


#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized." Everyone in the room stared at him. "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.


Scott Lynch


#bondsmagi #cauterizing #tongues #torture #torture

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.


Flannery O'Connor


#any #cheek #credit #deserve #i

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.


Bode Miller


#bent #car #cheek #coach #cream

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.


David Ogilvy


#believe #cheek #copy #got #just

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.


George Dennison Prentice


#govern #many #men #might #multitudes

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.


Sophocles


#deed #going #ground #i #i see

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.


Baruch Spinoza


#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.


Johannes Tauler


#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.


George Bancroft


#disappointed #nine #out #person #ten