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Captions about Tongues for Instagram

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. -Maimonides

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. -Gautama Buddha

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. -John Greenleaf Whittier

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. -Davy Crockett

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. -Maimonides

The windy satisfaction of the tongue. -Homer

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. -William Shakespeare

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. -Richard Steele

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. -Graham Greene

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. -William Shakespeare

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. -Ogden Nash

Language is wine upon the lips. -Virginia Woolf

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. -Rumi

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. -Solomon

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. -George Bancroft

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. -John Donne

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will speak with a straight tongue. -Chief Joseph

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -Alice Miller

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

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit. -Ten Bears

Better slip with foot than tongue. -Benjamin Franklin