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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Tongue |
| The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Manciple’s Tale. L. 18,213. | 1 |
| The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. Ecclesiasticus. XXVIII. 17. 18. | 2 |
| He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Psalms. XXXI. | 3 |
| Better the feet slip than the tongue. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. | 4 |
| The windy satisfaction of the tongue. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 1,092. Pope’s trans. | 5 |
| The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil. James. III. 8. | 6 |
| Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue. Job. XX. 12. | 7 |
| Lingua mali pars pessima servi. The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part. Juvenal—Satires. IX. 120. | 8 |
| I should think your tongue had broken its chain! Longfellow—Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. IV. | 9 |
| In her tongue is the law of kindness. Proverbs. XXXI. 26. | 10 |
| From the strife of tongues. Psalms. XXXI. 20. | 11 |
| Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Psalms. XXXIV. 13. | 12 |
| My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psalms. XLV. 1. | 13 |
| Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. James I. of Scotland. Ballad of good Counsel, quoted by Scott in Fair Maid of Perth. Ch. XXV. | 14 |
| Many a man’s tongue shakes out his master’s undoing. All’s Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 23. | 15 |
| Tongues I’ll hang on every tree, That shall civil sayings show. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 135. | 16 |
| My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 18. | 17 |
| You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. Henry VIII. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 126. | 18 |
| So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kind of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep; To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will. Lover’s Complaint. L. 120. | 19 |
| My tongue’s use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp. Richand III. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 161. | 20 |
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| The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr’d the aidance of the tongue. Venus and Adonis. L. 329. | 21 |
| Is there a tongue like Delia’s o’er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up? Young—Love of Fame. Satire I. L. 281. | 22 |
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