#tongues

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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

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.


Umberto Eco


#describing #does #enough #feel #how

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.


Jean de la Bruyere


#judgment #men #neither #nor #sad

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.


Washington Irving


#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.


Aly Khan


#came #civilization #contribution #efforts #history

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]


William Shakespeare


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

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.


Edward Dyer


#ears #eyes #hear #hearts #see

The eyes those silent tongues of love.


Miguel de Cervantes


#love #silent #those #tongues

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.


William Shakespeare


#books #brooks #everything #exempt #finds

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