Ralph Waldo Emerson Tongue Quotations

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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.