If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.