Trouvé 118 Résultats pour: Tongue

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• once a woman grows jealous, her tongue is a scourge to all alike. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 9)

• than a prudent woman that can hold her tongue; a soul well disciplined is beyond all price. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 18)

• Heat is gendered by the haste of rivalry, and bloodshed by hot blood; but it is tongue of witness that brings death. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 13)

• Tongue that comes between two friends, how many it has exiled, sent them to wander far away, (Ecclesiasticus 28, 16)

• Whip that lashes does but bruise the skin; tongue that lashes will break bones; (Ecclesiasticus 28, 21)