Wounds inflicted by the sword heal more easily than those inflicted by the tongue.

-Cardinal Richelieu
  Testament Politique.

Never mind my grace, lassie; just speak out a plain tale, and show you have a Scotch tongue in your head.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Duke of Argyle toJeanie Deans.The Heart of Midlothian, ch.35.

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  An Address to the Irish People.

Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Mrs Malaprop.The Rivals, act 3, sc.3.

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Cut Scandal's head off, still the tongue is wagging.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  The School for Scandal, prologue.

Sonow they havemade our Englishtonguea gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Shepherd's Calendar,'Letter to Gabriel Harvey'.

Even though his tongue acquire the Southern knack, he will still have a strong Scots accent of the mind.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Memories and Portraits, ch.1,'The Foreigner at Home'.

Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones,O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Break, Break, Break', stanza1.

Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.

-Vaughan, Henry
  Silex Scintillans,'The Retreat'.

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

-Waller, Edmund
  'Of EnglishVerse'.

The relation between the human tongue, the human psyche and butterfat is not very complex. The first two love the third.

-Waxman, Howard
  In Newsweek, 30 Nov.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

-Whittier,John Greenleaf
  'Maud Muller', l.105^6.

You say, as I have often given tongue In praise of what another's said or sung, 'Twere politic to do the like by these; But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine', complete poem. Collected in The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910).