Trouvé 199 Résultats pour: Lying Tongue

• Never win the name of back-biter, by thy own tongue entrapped into shame. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 16)

• Yet, where there is no sin to smite a man’s conscience, a full purse is a blessing, and poverty itself is a great evil when it goes with a blasphemer’s tongue.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 13, 30)

• and thou dost well to believe less than is told thee. Slips there are of the tongue when mind is innocent; (Ecclesiasticus 19, 16)

• what tongue was ever perfectly guarded? Confront thy neighbour with his fault ere thou quarrellest with him, (Ecclesiasticus 19, 17)

• Reproof there is that no good brings, as the event shews; the mistaken reproof that anger prompts in a quarrel. And a man may shew prudence by holding his tongue. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 28)

• Slip of a liar’s tongue is like slip from roof to ground; a villain’s end is not long a-coming. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 20)

• Worse than a thief is one who is ever lying, and to no better end may he look forward. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 27)

• Oh for a sentry to guard this mouth of mine, a seal to keep these lips inviolate! From that snare may I be safe, nor ever let my tongue betray me! (Ecclesiasticus 22, 33)

• Here is the lore, my sons, of the tongue’s use; hold fast by it, and thy own lips shall never be thy undoing, to ensnare thee in heinous wrong. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 7)

• What is it but his lying that entraps the sinner, what snare but their own speech catches the proud, the slanderers? (Ecclesiasticus 23, 8)

• Beware of habituating thy tongue to lewd talk; therein is matter of offence. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 17)

• Happiness it is to share thy home with a faithful wife; to have a tongue that never betrays thee; to serve only thy betters. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 11)