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“Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.”

Men Stuff Habit Mouths Drinking Satisfied Dirty Contracts Tobacco Filthy Chewing Chewing Tobacco

Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.”

Ifs Way Heart Running Understanding Lines Clear Meditation Habit Mouths Foolish Unclear

Author:Richard Mitchell

“Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?”

People Way Giving Mind Looks Literature Voice Wealth Pleasure Conditions Amount Habit Mouths Manners Tone Furniture

Book:Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

Source: Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

“Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.”

Ifs Firsts Habit Mouths Coffee Bread Awful Milk Cows Calamity

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

Natural Too Much Habit Mouths Lips Heavy Tendencies Nervous Acquire Smoking Cigar Curls Havana

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.”

Thinking Knows Men World Trying Sometimes Hard Faces Honest Dangerous Fine Depends Habit Mouths Being Honest Worried Titles Kicks Pounds Illegal Superstitions Bad Habits Toothpicks

Author:Benson Henderson

“A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?”

“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Dies Human Beings Brain Nice Theory Months Habit Exercise Mouths Accounts Lips Come Up Obvious Observation Encounters Tall Peculiar Nice Day

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.”

Ifs Talking Habit Kissing Mouths Bad Habits

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.”

Ifs Matter Use Names Language Difficult Church Perfect Lord Our Lives Habit Members Mouths Perfection Vain Curse Reverence Locks Routes Avoiding Foul Swearing Cursing Foul Language

Author:Spencer W. Kimball