Discourse

"I should think your tongue had broken its chain!"

"Lingua mali pars pessima servi."

"Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue."

"The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil."

"The windy satisfaction of the tongue."

"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."

"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."

"The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge."

"Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?"

"The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue."

"My tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp."

"You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me."

"My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."

"Tongues I'll hang on every tree, That shall civil sayings show."

"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."

"Most of the sins of the children of Adam are on their tongues."

"Better the feet slip than the tongue."

"Speak to me in many voices Make them all sound like one Let me see your sacred mysteries Reveal to me the Unknown Tongue."

"A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind."

"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"Here's a health to the lass with the merry black eyes! Here's a health to the lad with the blue ones!"

"First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest; That man's the best Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best."

"May you live all the days of your life."

"A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. * * * * As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: * * * * She's a savour to the glass, An excuse to make it pass."

"Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Chorus: Let the toast pass,— * Drink to the lass, I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass."

"The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, "Now the king drinks to Hamlet.""

"St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he said, "Whose image never may depart, Deep graven on this grateful heart, Till memory be dead." * * * St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breathe her name in careless mood Thus lightly to another; Then bent his noble head, as though To give the word the reverence due, And gently said, "My mother!""

"I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three."

"May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather."

"I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair that, like the air, 'Tis less of earth than heaven."

"I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking."

"Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me."

"Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am; But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I am as good as you are, as bad as I am."

"Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ours have it in our powers to do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours, Then we and ours will do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours."

"Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us, Here's a health to all those that love them that love those That love them that love those that love us."

"A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together."

"May all your labors be in vein."

"To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure."

"The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine."

"Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light, Where God speaks to Jones, In the very same tones, That he uses with Hadley and Dwight."

"Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper."

"You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever— And it may be for a day and a night,- And it well may be forever. But whether we meet or whether we part, (For our ways are past our knowing) A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart, On the ways we all are going! Here's luck! For we know not where we are going."

"The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead.""

"Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear sparkling and divine, Fair H2O, long may you flow, We drink your health (in wine)."

"The Earl of Stair, whose turn next came, Gave for his toast his own King Will, As Joshua the son of Nun, Who made both Sun and Moon stand still."

"Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene."

"Little said is soonest mended."

"Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire."

"Good talkers are only found in Paris."