The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
The sharp employ the sharp.
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
I'm tired of biting my tongue.
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.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!