Swell bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues. [ William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3, Sc. 3 ]
Evil tongues never want a whet. [ Le Sage ]
Foolish tongues talk by the dozen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hell is paved with women's tongues. [ Abbe Guyon ]
The tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony. [ Rich. II ]
Done to death by slanderous tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]
Lickerish tongues, treacherous tails. [ Proverb ]
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]
Children have wide ears and long tongues. [ Proverb ]
All tongues are not made of the same flesh. [ Proverb ]
Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. [ William Shakespeare ]
One pair of ears draws dry a hundred tongues. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Were drums speak out, laws hold their tongues. [ Proverb ]
Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages
Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages,
And giving tongues unto the silent dead! [ Longfellow ]
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night.
Like softest music to attending ears! [ William Shakespeare ]
Favour with words of good omen (by your tongues). [ Ovid ]
Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not.
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. [ Dryden ]
That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this "would" changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh,
That hurts by easing. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. [ William Shakespeare ]
They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare ]
Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues. [ Proverb ]
To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues. [ Theognis ]
It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [ Virg., of Rumour ]
Ill tongues ought to be heard only by persons of discretion. [ Proverb ]
They are little to be feared, whose tongues are their swords. [ Proverb ]
Few hearts that are not double, few tongues that are not cloven. [ Proverb ]
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues hast thou. [ Joanna Baillie ]
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen as is the razor's edge invisible. [ Shakespeare ]
Those whose tongues are gentlemen ushers to their wit, and still go before it. [ Ben Jonson ]
Your tongues and your words are steeped in honey, but your hearts in gall and vinegar. [ Plaut ]
It is a sad thing when men have neither wit to speak well nor judgment to hold their tongues. [ La Bruyere ]
There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues. [ De Finod ]
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. [ Bishop Hall ]
To acquire a few tongues is the labor of a few years; but to be eloquent in one is the labor of life. [ Anonymous ]
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested. [ La Roche ]
Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. [ Spinoza ]
There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. [ C. Weber ]
There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. [ Weber ]
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. [ Emerson ]
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. [ Alcott ]
The men who convey and those who listen to calumnies should, if I could have my way, all hang, the talebearers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears. [ Plautus ]
There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute-hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much. [ Sydney Smith ]
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. [ Washington Irving ]
Words, those fickle daughters of the earth,
are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. [ Colton ]