I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence
PUBLILIUS SYRUS In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented ...
THOMAS CARLYLE An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMES Speech is oft repented, silence never
DANISH PROVERB Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always ...
ART MALIK More have repented speech then silence.
[More have repented speech than silence.]
GEORGE HERBERT I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or C...
JEFF SESSIONS I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pocke...
SPIRO AGNEW We are still holding hope that we will bring Natasha home. I hope we can, but I truly think my calli...
ALLYSON SCHAAF I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
XENOCRATES I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
ANONYMOUS I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
SIMONIDES Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out...
JEN TINDUGAN-ADOVISO I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
BEN VAN BERKEL I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must d...
CHARLES PORTIS Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
BIBLE The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue
RALPH WALDO EMERSON My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.
KEVIN DEYOUNG When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted...
KELLY CLARKSON The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and
no genius can long or often utter...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utte...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often....
WILL POULTER Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to st...
JACKIE CHAN Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
ANU GARG I have had on the tip of my tongue for some time.
GUSTAV MAHLER I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot
MARK TWAIN Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not
THOMAS JEFFERSON Mmmmmm
I like that thing you do with your tongue. What do you call it? Speaking? Yeah, I dig it
BO BURNHAM The tongue should be engaged only in speaking the truth, in speaking sweetly and in consuming what i...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking...
P.D. JAMES I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
BARTON GELLMAN Under your good correction, I have seen
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've wal...
BRYN TERFEL People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the wor...
GILLIAN FLYNN The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grand...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale
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LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
IAN DOESCHER Mother language at home, regional language in State, national language in Country, medium language a...
DEVASKI I never, with important air,
In conversation overbear.
. . . .
My tongue within my lips ...
JOHN GAY The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. ...
LEYMAH GBOWEE Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting to...
JAZZ FEYLYNN My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered
BEN JONSON But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue,...
JEFF DUNHAM I never became rich but I often thought about it and now I have some good memories.
BORIS ZUBRY I'm tired of biting my tongue.
ROBIN WRIGHT Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: ...
BIBLE Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
KHALIL GIBRAN I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.
JERRY WEST Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers...
STEPHEN KING I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - ...
LANA DEL REY I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Chris...
KRISTA TIPPETT 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
ARTHUR MILLER I've been holding something inside that I never even told my girlfriend. It's been eating inside me,
GARY MCLARTY I never found it frustrating not speaking.
DAVID SELBY Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting ...
JAZZ FEYLYNN Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN Give a poor mind $1m,he will still end in poverty because,the poor mind has never repented to become...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual sho...
IRVIN S. COBB I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would r...
DON MARQUIS I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTER I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wish I don't have ears to listen, I wish I don't have eyes to see, I wish I don't have a tongue to...
EPHDAN Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own t...
ILAN STAVANS I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my ...
BECKY G I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But scandal's my aversion--I protest
Against all evil speaking, even in jest.
JOHN BYROM The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by
the edge of the sword; but not so...
BIBLE I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I h...
STEPHANIE BARRON 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges o...
HUBERT MARTIN No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE I stumbled often but never fell.
My mistakes spectators could tell.
I could dance better next time i...
KHUSRO P. MALIK I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
EDDIE VAN HALEN I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically strong...
GARY OLDMAN Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm d...
HENRY CAVILL Although we are very far apart,I'll always give you love from the depths of my aching heart. I love ...
OLIVIA LACY The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures with...
KURT EICHENWALD I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
AGATHA CHRISTIE There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often fou...
BERT WILLIAMS