Shut Quotes

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. (C. S. Lewis)
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. View quote
Mark Twain
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. View quote
Albert Einstein
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. View quote
Elvis Presley
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The doors of wisdom are never shut. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. View quote
Paul Robeson
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! View quote
Ingrid Bergman
Shut your eyes and see. (James Joyce)
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. View quote
Sylvia Plath
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. View quote
Sam Rayburn
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. View quote
Neil Armstrong
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. View quote
Garrison Keillor
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! View quote
Robert Browning
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. View quote
Dr. Seuss
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. (Paddy Ashdown)
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. View quote
Ogden Nash
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray