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“If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”

Ifs Differences Opinion Fool Mouths Differences Of Opinion

Author:Muhammad Taqi Usmani

“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.”

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Author:Derek Sivers

“Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.”

Fool Mouths Boast Daggers

Author:Josh Billings

“Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.”

Looks Fool Prove Mouths Prove It

Author:Mark Twain

“Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.”

Years Wells Enough Kids Technology Objects Theory Fool Fit Mouths Years Ago Medicine Dumb Pool Genes Surviving

Author:Lenny Bruce

“A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Feet Huge Fool Mouths Method Tired Proof Block Conclusion Elephants Chips Marble Sculpting Fool Proof

Author:David Gries

“Jonathan Swift wrote that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. It is also better to repeat yourself and be thought a scold than to speak only once and never be heard.”

Speak Doubt Heard Fool Mouths Silent Repeats Remove

Book:A Guide to Christian Ambition: Using Career, Politics, and Culture to Influence the World

Source: A Guide to Christian Ambition: Using Career, Politics, and Culture to Influence the World

“Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.”

Ifs Trying Art Self Would Be Lying Speak Fool Mouths Censorship Self Censorship Literary Art

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

Source: Writings

“She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it into his mouth. He did that when he was concentrating. It isn't sexy. He's not sexy. But he was, and she was staring at him like a fool. "wow" she whispered (.....)"Wow, huh?" His voice was low, husky. His chair creaked as he stood. His footsteps seemed strangely loud as he closed the couple yards between them. Then he was beside her. "I can work with wow”

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Author:Melissa Marr

“Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.”

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Author:Christopher Moore

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble”