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• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

  George Bancroft

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  Tags in Disappointed, Tongue, Slander, Belong

• Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue.

  Topics in French Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue, Foot, Comparison

• The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

  Tennessee Williams

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  Tags in Tongue, Brother

• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  Washington Irving

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Constant, Tongue, Temper

• I will speak with a straight tongue.

  Chief Joseph

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongue, Straight

• A smooth tongue is better than smooth locks.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue, Locks, Smooth

• A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

  Washington Irving

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Constant, Keener, Tongue, Speech

• If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Duer Miller

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  Tags in Slightest, Criticize, Your, Friends, Painful, Safe, Hold, Pleasure, Time, Tongue, Very, Take

• All parts of the human body get tired eventually – except the tongue.

  Konrad Adenauer

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  Tags in Tongue, Body

• There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

  Thomas Fuller

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  Tags in Heart, Tongue, Finds

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Every, Tongue, Fame

• A long memory and a long tongue are regular ole cronies.

  Kin Hubbard

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Tongue

• Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yield, Tongue

• O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.

  Quintus Ennius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indulge, Tongue

• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Wound, Speakers and Speaking, Tongue

• A brain is worth little without a tongue.

  Topics in French Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue, Brain, Heart

• A woman’s sword is her tongue, and she does not let it rust.

  Topics in French Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue, Rust, Woman

• Kind words don’t wear out the tongue.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue, Word

• Silent tongue and hempen heart often go together.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue

• A still tongue makes a wise head.

  Topics in Dutch Proverbs

  Tags in Tongue