To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. . . . if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.
The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.
Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.
We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.