Ben Sira

He that controlleth this tongue liveth without strife.

Baltasar Gracián

The tongue is a wild beast; once let loose it is hard to chain.

Ben Sira

The stroke of a whip maketh a mark, but the stroke of a tongue breaketh bones.

Charles Caleb Colton

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Calumny | God | Man |

Joseph Addison

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

Good | Heart | Intelligence | Nature | Restraint |

Moses ibn Ezra, fully Rabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as ha-Sallah "Writer of penitential prayers"

The worst of men is he whose tongue is mightier than his mind.

Men | Mind |

Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL

He who holds his tongue is strong.

Persian Proverbs

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.

Kindness |

Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL

A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from a sword; for the latter affects only the body, the former the spirit.

Body | Spirit |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Language | Man |

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL

The Word of God is not a sounding but a piercing Word, not pronounceable by the tongue but efficacious in the mind, not sensible to the ear but fascinating to the affection. His face is not an object possessing beauty of form but rather it is the source of all beauty and all form. It is not visible to the bodily eyes, but rejoices the eyes of the heart. And it is pleasing not because of the harmony of its color but by reason of the ardor of the love it excites.

Beauty | God | Harmony | Heart | Love | Mind | Object | Reason | Beauty | God |

Socrates NULL

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Counsel | Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Sophocles NULL

The tongue is sharper than the sword's edge.

Sophocles NULL

I see that everywhere among the race of men it is the tongue that wins and not the deed.

Men | Race |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it has.

Sorrow |

Thomas Fuller

The Tongue of a Fool carves a Piece of his Heart, to all that sit near him... The Tongue of idle persons is never still.

Heart |

William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

Prosperity |

William Hazlitt

A still tongue makes a wise head.

Wise |