Quotes with mouth

  • You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
  • The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
  • People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
  • The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
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  • Cato the Elder An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Robert Orben Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sidney Goff A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
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  • Barten Holyday A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Hitopadesa A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ellen Key All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Joseph Addison Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Betty Cuthbert Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • Harper Lee Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Brett Ratner Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Charles Churchill He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Charles Churchill He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Adele I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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