I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

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.

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

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

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

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

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I will speak with a straight tongue.