Lips quotes
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"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."
"Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized."
"Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them."
"I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest."
"Loose lips sink ships."
"A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?"
"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor."
"Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind."
"It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?"
""And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that.""
"At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?"
"Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak."
"At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them."
"Praise is deeper than the lips"
"When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted"
"Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips."
"I enjoy watching a woman with really bad teeth and a good sense of humor struggling to use her lips and tongue to hide her teeth when she's laughing. I just stand there and tell her joke after joke after joke."
"I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man."
"The lips know only shallow tunes"
"I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet."
