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Anning was an impressive fossil hunter who is thought to have been responsible for scientific achievements from discovering the first articulated plesiosaur to being among the first to identify fossilized poop—though her male contemporaries had a frustrating way of swiping credit from her.

The first known suggestion that the verse was related to Anning seems to be a book Henry De la Beche: Observations on an Observer , though it was only raised as a possibility and there was no source offered for the reference.

This is certainly Ice Cream Weather. Have you a good Ice Cream Freezer? Maybe the best-known one-word tongue twister, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious isn't short on complicated back story. Most people associate the mouthful of a nonsense word with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke dancing with cartoons from the movie adaptation of P.

Travers's book series Mary Poppins. The Shermans claimed they'd learned the funny word at camp as children in the '30s. Young and Parker said Young had made up the word as a kid in and the pair had sent their song to Disney in Later, another instance of the word being used in , this time spelled supercaliflawjalisticexpialadoshus , was discovered.

It had appeared in the Syracuse University student newspaper [ PDF ], and the writer of the column claimed she'd been the one who made it up, too. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty! A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair. I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears Votes: 3. The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali language of Calcutta and English. To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace" Votes: 3.

It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly. Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

You mind your tongue! No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass. I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

I act as the tongue of you, So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear. The wound that's made by fire will heal,But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council. It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him Votes: 3.

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Battle, n. A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue Votes: 3. One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart. It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy. For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life. Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10, people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not! A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more. Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor Votes: 3. If every marriage is measured by the tongue of a wife, their will be no husband left in every marriage.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster. Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it. A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife Votes: 3. Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue Votes: 3.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue? Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos. A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue. Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life. Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it. No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman. O horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else. Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails. When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. Straight men need to be emasculated Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady. This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart. To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it. At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue. Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue. Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth! If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth. The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

When a person's tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Shutup, lapdog, this isn't your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it. Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue. How sad they are, the promises we never return to.

They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own. If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love! For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world. I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age. These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts. They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write? The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better. Is everything a joke to you? He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. Winter Makepeace. Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon.

We talk too much! I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true! Shut your mouth! Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute.

The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue. I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.

Adele 0 Copy. Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain. Donita K. Paul 0 Copy. The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing. Benjamin Franklin 0 Copy. A tongue has no bones but it can break a heart. Ed Sheeran 0 Copy.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master. Robert Greene 0 Copy. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. Idries Shah 0 Copy. Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Samuel J. Hurwitt 0 Copy. Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out. Gloria Anzaldua 0 Copy. A person's tongue can give you the taste of his heart. The following have been circulating for many years:.

Swan swam over the sea, Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again, Well swum, swan! Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? You've no need to light a night-light On a light night like tonight, For a night-light's light's a slight light, And tonight's a night that's light.

When a night's light, like tonight's light, It is really not quite right To light night-lights with their slight lights On a light night like tonight.



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