The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones


Greek proverb

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A jest breaks no bones
SAMUEL JOHNSON
a tongue has no bones but it is strong enough to break the heart so be carefull about ur words
IRINA SWART
Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.
CLINT CATALYST
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf...
ALICE SEBOLD
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS
Made no more bones.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh bones.
BIBLE
I have no history but the length of my bones
ROBIN SKELTON
We want your skull! Make no bones about it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so...
BIBLE
Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)
JEANIENE FROST
Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)
BIBLE
We try to reconstruct the skeletons. All the arm bones, leg bones and toe bones go back together.
RICHARD HULBERT
Europe has been in my bones.
CHARLES JENCKS
Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.

Bones...
JEANIENE FROST
I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
MICHAEL SYMON
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL
I never met him, ... How do we know he won't choke?
FRANKIE BONES
He's a little smart-aleck colored boy, Teddy says he's a pro. Teddy tells Maurice to get us a gasoli...
FRANKIE BONES
I agreed to the job, ... but I want to see the camp first, and not have to boost a car to do it.
FRANKIE BONES
We put it off till the next Sunday,
FRANKIE BONES
We have to do it tomorrow? What's the rush?
FRANKIE BONES
You like this one?
FRANKIE BONES
You know what he was doing. Get us to take a swing at him, we're brought up for assaulting a federal...
FRANKIE BONES
Breakfast. Eggs over easy, bacon, fried potatoes, no grits.
FRANKIE BONES
My partner has to have good sized bones.
MACKLEMORE
I have no history but the length of my bones.
ROBIN SKELTON
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
Bones; there are 206 in the human body. No need for dismay, however: two bones of the middle ear ha...
UNKNOWN
I had bones coming out of my legs, ... Bones were sticking out.
ANGELA MOORE
I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.
ALICE SEBOLD
No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.
UNKNOWN
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your fe...
UNKNOWN
But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.
JAMES MACARTHUR
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
WALT WHITMAN
Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...
JEANIENE FROST
Everybody found some bones,
PAUL WATSON
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
BIBLE
You treat me as if I was a feeble Human who couldn't survive without your help, but I am a MASTER bl...
JEANIENE FROST
Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction."

I'll file that away w...
JEANIENE FROST
It's a bare bones thing.
WENDY JOHNSON
Il futuro è come l'acqua. Tutte le nostre azioni lo increspano, cambiandone i riflessi. Se avessi d...
JEANIENE FROST
I break orbital bones.
CONOR MCGREGOR
Bones are meant to sustain work. If you don't work and exercise and put some stress on the bones, yo...
ROBERT HEANEY
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s i...
KEITH RICHARDS
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
BIBLE
It helps build the baby's bones. What happens is if the mom isn't getting enough calcium, the fetus ...
BREINE STEVENS
It puts a lot more meat on the bones.
BILL SWANSON
Bitterness is the cancer of bones.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. M...
BIBLE
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. M...
BIBLE
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
dont break hearts, just bones
JERAMEE PLOOG
the meat on the bones of genealogy.
ANN KELLY
Sam has some improvement. He has numerous broken bones and several facial lacerations and a brain in...
EMILY RINEY
I've been called a redneck myself, and that's OK. I'm proud of that. I have no bones about that. How...
MIKE HELTON
He loves his sailors, he loves his Navy, no bones about that, ... He never expects anything in retur...
ROBERT E. LEE
He admitted to having firearms in the residence, admitted he had threatened him. He made no bones he...
CAPT. GREGORY RICHTER
This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin peo...
RUSH LIMBAUGH
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
THOMAS ALDRICH
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with anothe...
ADAM SMITH
It was a fluke deal. It was fixed. No sense in looking over your shoulder. Nothing but broken bones ...
JOEY HARRINGTON
That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones...
JEANIENE FROST
I have dangerous bones in my body.
VIN DIESEL
The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..."

Mencheres to Cat
JEANIENE FROST
Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body...
JEANIENE FROST
Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of...
JEANIENE FROST
You’re not going to let her do this, are you?” Bones snorted. “Let her? Mate, if you think you...
JEANIENE FROST
You could see his rib bones at first.
DEBRA SEDLMEYER
Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if...
JEANIENE FROST
I’m really not comfortable with you being naked,” I said, struggling for a normal tone and faili...
JEANIENE FROST
I can’t wait to find out how you taste, and you won’t want me to stop even after I’ve complete...
JEANIENE FROST
You like the party?
Is it in honour of anything?
My cat's birthday.
Where's your cat?...
CASSANDRA CLARE
You just saw bones and blood all over.
ANA RODRIGUEZ
It's Simon, he's missing."


Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?"
CASSANDRA CLARE
The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy."
<...
JEANIENE FROST
...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.
JEANIENE FROST
Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the scream...
JEANIENE FROST
Winston Gallagher!" I said, recognizing the first ghost I'de met. Then my eyes narrowed & I cove...
JEANIENE FROST
Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag.

Cat re: Annette
JEANIENE FROST
Mencheres dragged her screaming from me only an hour after our binding!" Gregor said. "I don't give ...
JEANIENE FROST
In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'
ELLEN BARKIN
Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do ...
JEANIENE FROST
When dinner is over, it won't be her bones on the table.
ANTONIN SCALIA
I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones.
TAHEREH MAFI
Fill all thy bones with aches.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
The doctors can't put it (the bones) together as good as God did.
CARL PETERSEN
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER
Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some ...
STEVEN LEVENKRON
There are two types of people on this earth; a Sack of bones dragging a soul or a Soul carrying a sa...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ

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