A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue. – Jazz Feylynn
- It takes a little slip to slip. Inappropriate words are inappropriate! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Our foot step may slip without the order of God. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you’re pissing on the present. – Malachy McCourt
- If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol. – Jerzy Pilch
- Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A fool’s mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man’s tongue is under the control of his mind. – NAME
- A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. – John R Dallas Jr
- Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Have the mind of a fox, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swan, and the soul of a dove. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A kind -˜no’ from the heart is better than a deceitful -˜yes’ from the tongue. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I want the strings. I want the ball and ????ing chain. I want to be so tied to you that you can’t ever slip away from me again. – Heather M Orgeron
- Catch your dreams before they slip awayDying all the timeLose your dreamsAnd you will lose your mind – Rolling Stones
- She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events. – Alex George
- Soft on the neck of either dove love’s hands let slip the reins: and while we look for light of love, love’s twilight wanes… – Oksana Rus
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. – Joyce Carol Oates
- Thinking can be done best when you’re in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration. – Auliq Ice
- Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are – Benny Bellamacina
- Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip. – Don DeLillo
- When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. – Vironika Tugaleva
- He gently touched his mother’s cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips. – Jodi Picoult
- We don’t lose people, they just slip down like sand through the loop holes we have in ourselves. – Himanshu Chhabra
- I no longer believe there’s any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future. – Josh Wagner
- He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. – EM Forster
- True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers – DF Jones
- He felt Anna’s hand slip into his and he grasped it hard. It was reassuring, soft, comforting. Everything he needed in that moment. – Samantha Chase
- For him, it appeared he could freezethe moment in a memory; only for it to slip through hishands like water. – JU Scribe
- The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. – EA Bucchianeri
- I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river. – Laura Resau
- Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks. – Maureen F McHugh
- Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are. – Rosaria Champagne erfield
- Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away. – Iain M Banks
- You may slip but God isn’t going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you. – Auliq Ice
- I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. – EM Forster
- Hot from hell. Caesar’s spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war. – William Shakespeare
- Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,Offer no angles to the wind.They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholesLess than themselves. – ASJ Tessimond