Tongues

Famous quotes containing the word tongues:

“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)

“Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.