"I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing."
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"Eternity was in our lips and eyes."
"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come."
"I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss."
"She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike."
"I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips"
"Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty."
"Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it"
"I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight."
"If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
"The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom."
"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips."
"I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark."
"Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth."
"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."
"When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing."
"With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone..."
"The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity."
"It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go."
"When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you..."