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• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Grandparent, Want, Opinion

  "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Aging, Speak

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 03, 2016

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• Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Truth, Lying

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

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• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Truth, Way

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, War, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Gratitude, Horse

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

  Thomas Hood

  Tails, Said, Extremes

  'The Doves and the Crows'

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• I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Stupid, Years, Taste

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• I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Portraits, Really Great

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

  Harry S. Truman

  Fear, War, Marijuana

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

  Elsa Lanchester

  Sarcastic, Women, Memorable

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• I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Political, Listening, Politics

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Opening

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• Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

  Tom T. Hall

  Beer, Matter, Too Much

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• I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

  Barbra Streisand

  Stars, Mines

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• Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Hurt, People, Literature

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• A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Drunk, Sick

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• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

  Cato the Elder

  Educational, Anger, Eye

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• I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Dirty, Naughty

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• The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

  George Jean Nathan

  Funny, Real, Humor

  American Mercury, Sept. 1929

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• Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

  Francis Quarles

  Heart, Luxury, Tails

  Christopher Harvey, Francis Quarles (1808). “The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].”

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• Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Ducks, Long

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• I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Sweat, Cotton

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• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  Lawrence Welk

  Trying, Sound, Bottles

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• I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

  Jasmine Guy

  Voice, Want, Word Of Mouth

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