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There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest (Tongues Quotes)
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 (Tongues Quotes)
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues (Tongues Quotes)
Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues (Tongues Quotes)
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language (Tongues Quotes)
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists (Tongues Quotes)
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early (Tongues Quotes)
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me (Tongues Quotes)
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect (Tongues Quotes)
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over (Tongues Quotes)
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words (Tongues Quotes)
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking (Tongues Quotes)
There is no restraining men’s tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity (Tongues Quotes)
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 (Tongues Quotes)
I don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on (Tongues Quotes)
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us (Tongues Quotes)
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic... only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues? (Tongues Quotes)
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid (Tongues Quotes)
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words (Tongues Quotes)
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds (Tongues Quotes)
We were romantics. We didn’t just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh? (Tongues Quotes)
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues (Tongues Quotes)
The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men (Tongues Quotes)
You got men who can’t hold peace and women who can’t control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young (Tongues Quotes)
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts (Tongues Quotes)
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do (Tongues Quotes)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing (Tongues Quotes)
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love (Tongues Quotes)
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and yet had no love I were even as the sounding brass or as a tinkling cymbal (Tongues Quotes)
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth (Tongues Quotes)