Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices. . . sing also with your conduct.
Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.
Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.
I act as the tongue of you,. . . tied in your mouth. . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.