There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice
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DANTE ALIGHIERI can hold their tongues.
CHARLES DUELFER ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.
AMOS OZ When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The commission is an independent decision-making body and there are strong rules that govern how the...
LINDA BARTH Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON
CHUCK MISSLER They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
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There are many words which can not ...
TOBA BETA Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives
ALEXANDER HAMILTON America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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THEMISTOCLES Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Their tails are high and tongues awag-the twin banners of sled dog contentment.
CLARA GERMANI Intuitively embellished are those, who with their tongues chant the Name of the Lord.
GURU NANAK Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues
RUSSIAN PROVERB It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me;...
PLUTARCH People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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REX HADNOT Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
YIDDISH PROVERB Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
JEWISH PROVERB Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is u...
BIBLE They are still grappling with new realities. They are not sure how they want to govern.
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GEORGE E. MACDONALD You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
VICTOR KIAM You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
VICTOR COUSIN We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
JOHN LYLY We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
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WILLIAM PENN Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.
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ERICA JONG I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pea...
ERICA JONG O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?
LUDOVICK BARRY O you much partial gods! why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them?
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T.A. BARRON The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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the birds can no longer fly
they've c...
O ANNA NIEMUS Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
GEORGE HERBERT Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
JONATHAN SWIFT Done to death by slanderous tongues
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Syllables govern the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Let reason govern desire.
MARCUS T. CICERO Syllables govern the world.
JOHN SELDEN Let reason govern desire.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tongues are a miraculous manifestation of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
ANNE BRONTë The eyes those silent tongues of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
NIGEL LAWSON The dead govern the living.
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GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL