Mouth Quotes - page 51

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple. (Stobaeus)
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure. View quote
Emily Dickinson
They flattered the ambitious and all the ills came gradually to a head. Murder drowning everything was allowed. Intriguers monopolised all the offices. Good men could only mutter for if they spoke they were lost. Hatred vengeance everything was permitted and nobody dared open his mouth... View quote
Jacques-Louis Ménétra
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
My time's too short to waste on Things you say without your brain. Will you paint works of art When you speak? When you open your mouth Will I weep? View quote
Happy Rhodes
I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't speak when you would expect him to speak. He's very measured in his response to things. He likes to get all the facts first before he shoots his mouth off. It makes me crazy; it makes a lot of people crazy. View quote
Harvey Fierstein
Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile. View quote
Libba Bray
Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses. View quote
Libba Bray
When the Twin Towers fell-I felt a dentist had pulled out my two front teeth. I could not laugh anymore. And I have the smile of a smiling damned villain. But I also felt the hole in my mouth became a garage, and entering that garage were terrorists in trucks full of explosives and French diplomats-to f*ck us more with other nations-to run over our dead bodies. View quote
Giannina Braschi
Mother's words of wisdom Answer me Don't talk with food in your mouth. View quote
Erma Bombeck
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews. (Randa Abdel-Fattah)
Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. View quote
Will Rogers
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. View quote
Confucius
That night I made copies of all the documents with shaking hands and gave them to a friend with contacts in the British secret services. I had a bitter taste in my mouth. View quote
Jani Allan
If these words had proceeded from the mouth of a demon, if they had been spoken by some enraged and infinitely malicious fiend, I should not have been surprised. But these things are attributed to a God of infinite mercy. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Lincoln was not eloquent in the usual 19th century way, certainly not in the romantic way. He was not a man of frothing at the mouth or shaking his fist in a dramatic way. Lincoln was logic, and when he got the hook in your mouth he would pull you in no matter how much line was involved. One observer of the Lincoln-Douglas debates said that if you listened to Lincoln and Douglas for five minutes, you would go with Douglas. If you listened to them for an hour you always went with Lincoln. View quote
Allen C. Guelzo
...and i am learning to hope like a bird learns its first affair with wind and sun like an orange learns to take flight into the mouth of a boy in summer... View quote
Andrés Montoya
When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth. View quote
Eric Clapton
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over. (Neil Patrick Harris)
In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does. View quote
Barbara Corcoran
For-good or bad-though from one mouth it flows, Fame to a boundless torrent quickly grows. View quote
Ludovico Ariosto
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. View quote
Herman Wouk
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut