He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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.
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Love's tongue is in his eyes.
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
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