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Tongue

(noun) The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue."
— John Muir
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
— Virginia Woolf
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
— Benjamin Franklin
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare
"The tongue like a sharp knife. Kills without drawing blood."
— Gautama Buddha

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