Mouth Quotes

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 circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Government

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Fool, Doubt, Thought

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

Drunk, Said, Keep

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Fool, Doubt, Keep

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson

Everyone, Plan, Punched

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman

Fear, Mind, Nothing

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

Alone, Heart, Help

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

Two, Speak, Listen

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

Person, Bore, Feats

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato

Life, Saying, Everybody

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Voltaire

Heart, Obeys, Poorly

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya

Wicked, Fly, Poison

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. Truman

Time, Good, Truth

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Truth, Die

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce

Dead, Purpose, Used

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Cato

Angry, Eyes, Opens

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.
Monica Lewinsky

Bad, Year, Republican

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything, Thoughts, Face

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Women, Men, Simple

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mind, Again, Object

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Lance Secretan

Love, Trust, Heart

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka

Time, Food, Long

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman

Time, History, Country

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra Cisneros

Respect, Woman, Young

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Jean Paul

Worth, Actions, Prove

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean Nathan

Real, Laugh, Him

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ

God, Alone, Live

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats

Truth, Times, Silent

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
Conan O'Brien

Best, Him, Halloween

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