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Diogenes Laërtius, aka "Diogenes the Cynic"
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Roger L'Estrange, fully Sir Roger L'Estrange
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confide thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
When anger swells the heart, the idly-barking tongue restrain.
For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."
The tongue of a man is the rudder of a ship, but the Universal Lord is its pilot.
Anahareo, given name Gertrude Moltke Bernard NULL
The tongue is, at the same, the best part of a man, and his worst; with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.
Good | Government | Man | Wisdom |
Slander is called the third tongue because it slays three persons, the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Wisdom |
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
The pen is the tongue of the mind.