Best mouths & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Thomas Paine Reader

“As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.”

“No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.”

Has Beens Language Mystery Divine Mouths Socialism Greek Mysticism Employed Mystic Esoteric Connexion

Author:William Ralph Inge

“I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.”

People Thinking Men World Has Beens Used Left Easy Silence Saws New York Months Holy Mouths Golden Sat Parks Fascinating Feds Seventies Guru Robes Fed Up Holy Man Central Park Lunchtime

Author:Doris Lessing

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.”

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.”

Has Beens Eye Emotion Impossible Produce Taught Involved Mouths Thirty Muscles Wrinkles Register Starlets Halibut

Author:Jean Kerr

“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

“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 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

“It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.”

Mind Wells Has Beens States Body Talking Cases Judging Mouths Patient Philosopher Tongue Physicians

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.”

People Way Looks Has Beens Actors Opportunity Given Careers Lucky Directors Mouths Horse Grateful Cinematographers

Author:Meryl Streep

“Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.”

Men Has Beens Silence Too Much Mouths Dues

Author:J. Ogden Armour

“The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.”

People Should Firsts Has Beens Motivational Success Responsibility Written Mouths Faults Apples Bites Successful People Taking Responsibility Unsuccessful Gravestone

Book:The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success

Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success

“If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.”

Ifs Has Beens Done Bigs Kids School Attention Class Comedy Teacher Plans Teaching Lessons Waste Mouths High School Comedian Wasting Time Principal Delivering

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.”

Has Beens Kissing Mouths

Author:Meat Loaf

“You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.”

Knows Want Looks Has Beens Hard Helping Mouths Horse Disappointment Clubs Hard Times Survived Strength And Hope

Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Wells Mean Has Beens Born Human Beings Animal Human Nature Huge Mouths Weak Size Teeth Gentle Aggressive Claws

Author:Dalai Lama

“The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.”

Mean Has Beens Ends Running Used Water Air Draws Mouths Attraction Emptiness Stem Hollow Pipe

Book:Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons

“The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much more harm than good - it has been primarily a moral reason: I don't think the state has any more right to tell me what to put into my mouth than it has to tell me what can come out of my mouth.”

Thinking Has Beens States Reason Facts Moral Majors Mouths Bases Harm Opposition Marijuana Prohibition Marijuana Prohibition

Author:Milton Friedman

“Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.”

People Has Beens Country Bigs Stuff Seeing Trump Becoming Happenings Mouths Ugly Opening Bitter Racist Latent Bitter People

Author:Bernie Sanders

“You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited and now this knife has grown dull. But now I am sending angelic hosts to sharpen your weapon and assist in cutting you through. Your tongue has even grown powerless in this last season because your faith and hope have been deferred. But this is NOW! I will put MY Word in your mouth. You will speak with a new vigor. I AM sharpening your tongue. Get ready, for all things are being sharpened. Get ready, for you will now cut and your way will open up.”

Way Has Beens Lasts Speak Waiting Cutting Ready Weapons Mouths All Things Seasons Tongue Dull Knives Host Powerless Vigor Angelic Hope And Faith Sharpening Machetes

Author:Chuck Pierce

“Let's just be clear: The reason this has been making headlines is because Donald Trump was discussing and bragging about sexual assault 11 years ago on a bus.It's not Hillary Clinton who put those words in his mouth.”

Years Has Beens Reason Clear Trump Mouths Years Ago Clinton Bus Assault Headlines Discussing Bragging Sexual Assault

Author:Anderson Cooper

“This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.”

“My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.”

Mind Looks Has Beens Body Next Lines Memories Loss Worry Comedy Focus Judging Mouths Performing Enjoyment Gestures Persistent Observing Delivering Analyzing

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.”

Has Beens Running Poetry Mines Eating Mouths Corners Poetry Is Ink

Author:Mark Strand

“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.”

Source: The Tent

“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Two Faces Girl Kindness Youth Sweet Mouths Blame Forgotten Dear Mysterious Evening Fallen Fifty Your Face Twilight Gathering Concealed Meanness

Author:James M. Barrie

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

Should Littles Has Beens Ends Values Term Common Taste Mouths Agree Profound Neighbor Great Things Shed Abyss Refined Common Good Nuance Bad Taste

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.”

Heart Littles Has Beens Matter Body Faces Known Too Much Lovers Drink Conversation Mouths Cat Dresses Paint Dinner Stores Dry Sweat Flags Strokes Threatening Palms Heart Attack Nervousness Dry Up

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.”

Has Beens Pain Felt Seeing Mouths Shots Unconscious Candle Burned Beaten

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.”

Has Beens Play Speak Secret Wife Havens Taught Arms Mouths Ears Lips My Wife Juliet Basil Shakespeare's Plays

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.”

Trying Long Has Beens Said Stills Matter Hard Light Might Names Left Felt Known Laughing Arms Mouths Shining Forgotten Circles Warmth True You My Smile

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight.”

Ifs Needs Wells Kind Has Beens Dream Bigs Eye Strong Cases Mouths Let Me Surprise Coffee Ruins Tonight Tied Grandfather My Grandfather Ninja Tied Up Wince Weird Dream

Author:Holly Black

“He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

Thinking Knows Way Has Beens Stills I Can Used Fighting Voice Half Sun Air Drug Late Mouths Clouds Corners Critical Handle Gentle Too Late Balanced Think Of You Eclipse

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.”

People Want Needs Feels Has Beens Left Forget Mouths Police Stomach Wow Oxygen Riot Giddy

Book:Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper. "How's the lasagna?" Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged.”

Wells Has Beens Said Use Pieces Paper Mouths Remembered Engaged Really Great Hello Spy Solomon Josh Lasagna Joe Solomon

Author:Ally Carter

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