Mouths Quotes

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Treasure Island, Intention, Deny

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Treasure Island”, p.39, Aegitas

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• When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

  Gerd de Ley

  Inspirational, Funny, Majority

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• Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Honest, Effects

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• Mouth in gear, brain stuck in neutral.

  Devon Monk

  Brain, Gears, Stuck

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  Quintus Ennius

  Death, Men, Grieving

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• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Communication, Compassion

  "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

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• One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

  John Galsworthy

  Eye

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2007, e-artnow

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• A closed mouth catches no flies.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.257

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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  Sam Rayburn

  Inspirational, Book, Communication

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• If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Quoted in Observer, 15 Jan. 1950

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• The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

  Voltaire

  Heart

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• A closed mouth gathers no foot.

  James Alexander Thom

  Feet, Silence

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• Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Powerful, Word Of Mouth, Power

  "Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

  Jean Paul

  Basketball, Action, Proof

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• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

  Henry Ford

  Humor, Boredom, Deep Thought

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• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

  Dennis Potter

  Trouble, Knows

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• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  Franz Kafka

  Food, Long, Cooking

  "Investigations of a Dog". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  Chris Martin

  Village Idiots, Idiot, Should

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• There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

  William Shakespeare

  Vanity, Glasses, Made

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [35]

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• Thought is made in the mouth.

  Tristan Tzara

  Thinking, Made

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• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Depth

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• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  Edmond Rostand

  Funny, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Edmond Rostand (2013). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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