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Letter "T" » tongues
«True hearts have eyes and ears,no tongues to speak;They hear and see, and sigh,and then they break.»
«We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth»
«Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd»
Author: Margaret Cavendish
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
anger, edged, edge in, edging, Over the Edge, sharp, sharps, sharp tongue, swords, tongues, wound
«Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi»
«The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.»
«Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (I Corinthians 13:1-3)»
Author: Bible
| About:
Charity
| Keywords:
brass, Corinthian, Corinthians, cymbal, sounding, tinkle, tinkling, tongues
«The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
allows, avoids, brag, clings, dresses, employment, hugs, lowest, man of the world, performs, plainly, pretension, sharp tongue, speaks in, The Mark, The Mark of, The News, tone, tongues, unlocking
«Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
apologetically, caress, caressed, Caresses, caressing, celebrate, crown, disapprobation, doors, embraces, evermore, flinging, flings, flung, goes out, greet, greeted, greets, hated, held, helping, honors, scorned, self help, solicitously, the gods, the self, tongues, welcome, wide
«We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Rights
| Keywords:
As of, hazard, hazarding, Natural right, natural rights, pens, peril, The Perils of, tongues
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