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

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

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

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself were it possible.

The best government rests on the people and not on the few on persons and not on property on the free development of public opinion and not on authority

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

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

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

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.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

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

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

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

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.