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“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

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

Thinking Men Giving Time Wise Fool Mouths Sticks Novelists Pipe Time To Think Lecturer Essayists

Author:C. S. Lewis

“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 compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?”

Men Hands Government Opinion Wise Subjects Mouths Labor Congress Spread Bread Variety Welfare Contribution Unlimited Taxation Simplify Frugal Unlimited Power Propagation General Welfare

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]”

Hands Speak Wise Mouths Foolish

Author:George Herbert

“You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.”

People Powerful Steps Wise Intellectual Mouths Track Candy Better Than You

Author:Michael Bassey

“The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.”

Wise Mouths Smell Ducks Frogs

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.”

Life Wise Mouths

Book:The Dream Songs: Poems

Source: The Dream Songs: Poems

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

Source: Writings

“If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”

Ifs Wells Form Fall Found Wise Mouths Sitting Weight Thoughtful Gray Infatuation Prey Suggesting

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.”

Men Soul Views Wise Mouths Temples Statues

Author:Pythagoras