"[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?"
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"You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you."
"Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love."
"Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?"
"No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing."
"Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated."
"The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in."
"The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut."
"Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy."
"I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
"A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death."
""Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths."
"Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane."
"Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths."
"Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph."
"Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath."
"You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success."
"We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth."
"I should have said something. ... But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say."
"Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement."