“The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.”
“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
“The mouth remembers what the brain can’t quite wrap its tongue around & that’s what my life’s become. My life’s become my mouth’s remembering, telling stories with the brain’s tongue.”
“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
“My world slips away and I again taste vengeance on my tongue.”