A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Better the feet slip then the tongue.