“Now everything is clear.
I admit my defeat. The tongue
of my ravings in my ear
is the tongue of a stranger.”

“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”

“I speak my mind, because it hurts to bite my tongue”

“Like the sun I brighten each atom's cheek;
I cannot be pinpointed: I am too manifest.
I speak with every tongue, listen with all ears,
but marvel at this: My ears and tongue are erased.
Since in all the world only I exist
above and below, no likeness of me can be found.”

“Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?”

“Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“A great ox stands on my tongue.”

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”