Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

-Ascham, Roger
  Toxophilus,'To all Gentlemen andYeomen of England'.

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easyat Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champme¤  dy. I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'American Names'. Bury My Heart  At Wounded Knee was used by Dee Brown as the title of a book on the Indian genocide (1971).

But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 88

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 4:10.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness,O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.OLord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would Igive it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart,O God, thou wilt not despise.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:14^17.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:10^11.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 28:17^18.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 32:8.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 2:5^11.

   If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James1:26.

Even so thetongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 3:5.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole 1Timothy body, and setteth on firethe course of nature; and it isset on fire of hell.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 3:6.

Battle, n. A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Chimney Sweep'.

To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil-speaking, lying, and slandering.

-Book of Common Prayer
Catechism.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

-Bradstreet, Anne ne¤  e Dudley
  Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of  Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

And it isgood to cheat the pair, and gibe, Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech. Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos! Thinketh, He dwelleth i'the cold o'the moon. Thinketh He made it, with the sun to match, But not the stars; the stars came otherwise.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Caliban upon Setebos', stanza1.

Such a fatigue of adjectives, a drone of alliterations, a huffing of hyphenated words hurdling the meter like tired horses. Such a faded upholstery of tears, stars, bells, bones, flood and blood†a thud of consonants in tongue, night, dark, dust, seed, wound and wind.

-Broyard, Anatole
  On Dylan Thomas's poetry.  Aroused by Books.

German memory was like a massivetongue seeking out, over and over, a sore tooth.

-Buruma, Ian
  The Wages of Guilt.

And for ther is so gret diversite In Englissh and in writing of oure tonge, So prey I God that non myswrite the, Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge. And red wherso thow be, or elles songe, That thow be understonde,God I biseche!

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.5, l.1793^8.