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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, ...
BIBLE Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; / Though he spare it, a...
BIBLE He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his ton...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a pupp...
ROB LOWE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS So Henry," Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. "I...
MICHAEL BUCKLEY Matthew Shepard died as a result of the blunt trauma injuries he sustained to his head and face.
PATRICK ALLEN Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him o...
ANNA GODBERSEN Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are...
LESLIE FIEDLER His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
BIBLE I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB 'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an inst...
SHAWN AMOS He rolled his eyes. " What Claire?"Claire snickered. " Corned-beef again?"Henry narrowed his eyes at...
ANDRIA LARGE The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thu...
NEIL GAIMAN An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMES When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kind...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Henry handed the record to his old friend, who draped it across his chest. His eyes closed as if he ...
JAMIE FORD Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
COLLEY CIBBER That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell ...
BEN MILES He just kind of takes it as it is, and rolls with the punches. He's very tough.
BUNNIE GLEASON That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
TURKISH PROVERB By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair
PERSIAN PROVERB Unbidden, a growl escaped him just as his lips brushed that heavenly skin and with one bite he pierc...
HEATHER R. BLAIR As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens ...
DAVID EDDINGS Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
ANONYMOUS Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
MATTHEW ARNOLD He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
ANDREW LANG I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myse...
CHRIS CLEAVE A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS Henry had a great day. I'm glad he had a good day, especially after his birthday.
MARK PRIOR With Matthew Pinsent it used to drive me mad that every time he ate his cereal he tapped his teeth w...
JAMES CRACKNELL If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue.
DEAN KOONTZ Time rolls his ceaseless course.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner...
MATTHEW SWEET I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name conne...
MATTHEW SWEET The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagina...
MATTHEW SWEET Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direct...
MATTHEW SWEET A morsel for a monarch.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI He firmly pulled her body against his and he brushed her lips with his. Staring into her eyes, he li...
LANEY SMITH The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself
the singer of its own dirge.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
C. C. PHELPS 7. This is a consensus view among scholars today. For one thing, Matthew used Mark as a source for m...
BART D. EHRMAN Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What the hell is so funny?", He snapped. His hands now planted on his hips. Claire waved a dismissi...
ANDRIA LARGE SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech...
AMBROSE BIERCE He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and so...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
JANE AUSTEN John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.
CLIFFORD LONGLEY I know that he [Matthew Broderick] doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal ...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then...
ANNA GODBERSEN Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
PETER FONDA When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy ha...
OMAR KHAYYAM His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I feared the worst on Sunday and it has been confirmed that Matthew has ruptured his Achilles. Of co...
STEVE BRUCE The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our abilit...
DALAI LAMA XIV That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two G...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH After more of his sweet torture, I called, “Tate, honey?”
“Yeah, baby,” he answered. KRISTEN ASHLEY Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need yo...
LISA KLEYPAS He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue
JOHN RUSKIN Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
CRISS JAMI Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... Hi...
OSCAR WILDE How long?"
His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."
For ever?"
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was pe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Christianity is not as natural in man's heart as either tongue in his mouth or heart in his chest.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so...
RON CHERNOW He will give the devil his due. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Take it easy, friend," siad Peter, regaining his balance, quickly understanding the condition Henry ...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks
YIDDISH PROVERB It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mina’s mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under...
MELJEAN BROOK I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini an...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. ...
ANNA GODBERSEN Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue....
SIDNEY SHELDON He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, ...
DON MARQUIS He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
ROY L. SMITH We're especially pleased that Henry Oppenheimer voted in favor of the proposal. Henry doesn't vote f...
SUPERINTENDENT BARRY RICCI The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair a...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a le...
RUDYARD KIPLING He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own to...
MARK TWAIN I would like to give that to Matthew as a gift.
JAMES LADIG Is everything a joke to you?” I asked.
He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everythi...
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For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
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Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
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he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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the notion of perfection as culture...
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troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
- Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND