Pastoral Resources

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

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

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.