“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
“The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!”
“The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.”
“It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.”
“Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.”