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“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”

Ifs Mouths Ears Slander

Book:Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

Source: Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

“True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.”

Hands Reading Forever Growing Feet Holy Taste Mouths Shoes Casting

Book:Of ideas of beauty

Source: Of ideas of beauty

“advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.”

Knows Years Stills Hands Next Future Mouths Paid Delusion Day To Day Next Year Nickels

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.”

People Two Speak Given Listening Mouths Ears Managers Good People

Book:The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.”

Jobs House Freedom Democracy Citizens Mouths Citizenship Democracies Have World Citizen

Author:Gunter Grass

“I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.”

Long Real Running Secret Mouths Peculiar Sugar Artificial Long Runs Real Things Calories Sweeteners

Book:Life Force

Source: Life Force

“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Should Wells Said Wisdom Asks Easy Doors Dying Mouths Tasks Golden Streams Prophet Bores Supplies

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.”

Knows Heart Moments One Thing Mouths

Author:Catherine Marshall

“Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes; Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.”

Should May Eye Faces Sleep Mouths Surprise Lovely Features Her Eyes Homely Inspectors Nymphs

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.”

Firsts Use Hands Would Be Order Food Mouths Cooking Clean Fingers Careful Dirty Decent Culinary Be Careful Plates Dishes Etiquette Jackets Breach

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Hands Food Mouths Cooking Glasses Shoulders Culinary Too Short Elbows

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.”

Writing Moments Hands Pleasure Talking Food Fine Mouths Cooking Culinary Throat Delicious Strawberries Nectarines

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“Marketing only really works with word of mouth.”

Mouths Marketing Word Of Mouth

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.”

Stills Whole Sports Grew Grew Up Mouths Edges Whole Life Rough Lots Of Money

Author:Justin Bieber

“I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.”

People Way Enough Problem Certain Speak Information Mouths

Author:Ray Lewis

“I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.”

World Doe Enough Kids Bits Century Lucky Mouths 21st Century

Author:Ray Winstone

“I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.”

Want Actors Speak Talking Musician Mouths Passionate

Author:Jared Leto

“It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.”

Has Beens Said Sin Mouths Destruction Honey Bees Tails

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

World Children Seems Values Fall Loses Pieces Mouths Faults Fruit Appreciation Tongue Sheer Falling To Pieces

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.”

Ifs Mouths Ears Wounds Reporters Slander Receiver

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.”

Way Poetry Turns Mouths One Way Tails Serpent

Author:Maxine Kumin

“[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!”

Children Persons Young Strong Conversation Mouths Flattery Accustomed Johnson Young Children Mustard Obsequiousness

Author:Hester Lynch Piozzi

“The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage.”

World Trying May Whole Lying Existence Civilization Mouths Hot Whole World Noise Manage Tigers Absolutely Nothing

Author:Djuna Barnes

“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”

Ifs Men Different Would Be Eye Pain Joy Water Tears Mouths Blind Strikes Cups Breasts Shed Consternation

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.”

Men Doe Suffering Speak Sound Talking Wise Mouths Rejoice

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.”

Soul Powerful Beauty Mouths Triumph Shakes Lions Rude Cunning Attractiveness Haughty Undaunted

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.”

Book:Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions

Source: Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions

“Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.”

People Way Art Happens Artist Materials Mouths Vote Studios You Choose Being An Artist Raw Materials

Author:Teresita Fernandez

“Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu. Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]”

Tears Mouths Reputation Honour Lamentation Nemo

Author:Quintus Ennius

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”

May Has Beens Said Literature Born Judgment Mouths Apology English Literature Irishmen

Book:Labour in Irish History

Source: Labour in Irish History

“Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.”

Blood Cry Mouths Thirds Relation Rate Ancestry Vapor

Author:Pierre Charron

“When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.”

Wells Remember Mother Speak Knowing Source Mouths Coming Out Our Relationship

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.”

Way Ends Body Taste Mouths Casts Absurd Analysis Organs Tolerate Ashes Psychiatry Happy Endings Pointless Psychoanalysis Participants Termination

Author:Janet Malcolm

“Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.”

Ifs Years Helping Use Eye Faces Periods Mouths Envy Muscles Your Face Disadvantages Attractiveness

Author:Arlene Dahl

“[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.”

Hands Kids Feet Brother Mouths Cookies Jars Cookie Jars

Author:Kathie Lee Gifford

“When Ronald Reagan spoke a thing aloud, he believed it forever and for always. By the time he started running for president, in 1976, he had already developed an unwavering and steadfast faith in the correctness of whatever came out of his mouth.”

Running President Forever Mouths Spokes Correctness Steadfast Unwavering

Author:Rachel Maddow

“You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.”

Ifs Feels Trying Eye Ought Creatures Eating Mouths Focused Restaurants Caves Whales Forks Oysters Eating Raw

Author:Lillian Russell

“There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.”

People World Deals Trouble This World Mouths Discretion

Book:The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History

Source: The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History

“because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.”

Lost Lines Stage Goes On Mouths Decided Theater Bounds Southern Southerner

Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

“Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.”

Felt Known Moral Mouths Method Conviction Platforms Testament Declaration New Testament Assertion True Ones

Author:J. G. Holland

“The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.”

Littles Bigs Lying Danger Mouths Ears Pitcher

Author:Ethel Mumford

“Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.”

People Ifs Silence Quality Wonder Doubt Stupid Mouths Silent Opening Enigmatic Keeping Silent

Book:The Spiral Path

Source: The Spiral Path

“You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.”

Knows World Ideas Happens This World Mouths Good Ideas

Author:Masahiro Sakurai

“I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.”

Believe Reason Reality Issues Color Mouths Connections Blind Liars Convincing Pathological Liar

Author:Jane Velez-Mitchell

“A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.”

Men Christian Evil Christianity Enemy Fields Battle Mouths Soldier Conquer Cannons

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.”

“A closed mouth gathers no feet.”

Feet Mouths Discretion

Author:Sam Horn

“Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.”

Deals Regret Mouths I Regret

Author:Kathy Griffin

“In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.”

Persons Seems Faces Mouths Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Anywhere but Here

Source: Anywhere but Here

“I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.”

Knows Way Kind Whole Causes Walks Talking Mouths Let Me South Honey Cousin Slides My Cousin

Author:Eloise Greenfield