Muzzle Quotes

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Funny, Dog, Ends

  Malcolm Lowry, Sherrill Grace (1995). “Sursum corda!”

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• She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

  Jean M. Auel

  Horse, Hands, Special

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• Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Gun, Soldier, Made

  "199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad". Book by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, p. 142, 1999.

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• When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

  George R. R. Martin

  Truth, Fear, Liars

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam

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• The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press

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• Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Stupidity, Protect You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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• As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
  as well have a hollow as a heart.

  Robert Hayden

  Heart, Mouths, Talons

  Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.152, University of Michigan Press

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• A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lesson Learned, Lessons, Forgotten

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Home, Long

  First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

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• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Love Is

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• A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.127, Lulu.com

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• Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Dog, Hands, Soul

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Mean, Gun

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Climbing, Iron, Mind

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• [Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Blood, Should Have

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• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Goodbye, Dog, Morning

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• I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.

  Jesse Ventura

  Personal Opinions, Kind, States

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• As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.

  Hans-Joachim Marseille

  Long, Looks, Aviation

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• O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Struggle, Gun

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Self, Expression

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sleep, Next Day, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.56, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon-loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something.

  Dick Couch

  Brother, Safety, Weapons

  Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.177, Three Rivers Press

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• Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

  Herman Melville

  Courage, Yield, Mustache

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.45

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• Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

  Karl Kraus

  Freedom, Cells, Austria

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

  Maureen Dowd

  Trying, Looks, Republican

  "Bishops Play Church Queens as Pawns" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2012.

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