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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's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Fun, Game

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

Men, Sun, Against

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Eyes, Before

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin

Faith, Reason, Eye

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

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Sleep, Woman

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Judge, Focus

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

Love, Marriage, Wrong

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.
Neil Armstrong

Small, Pretty, Put

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.
Phyllis Diller

Children, Down, Talk

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Happy, Down, Hold

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

Time, Truth, Sun

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley

Time, Words, Universe

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Long, Nothing

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.
Virginia Woolf

Heart, Past, Book

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, Door, Errors

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali

Dreams, Through, Eyes

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
Ron White

Her, Diamonds, Minute

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.
Saskya Pandita

Silence, Means, Speech

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Ellen DeGeneres

Truth, Judge, Same

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Live, Evil

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton

Great, Brain, Try

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Emile Zola

Truth, Grow, Bury

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

Mind, Again, Mouth

It's good to shut up sometimes.
Marcel Marceau

Good, Sometimes

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
Roger Ebert

Different, Try, Both

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman

Human, Lion, Inside

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
Harvey Weinstein

Time, Control, Country

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