The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.

Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

A tart temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.