"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare."
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"Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth."
"Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved."
"I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth."
"Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips."
"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
"Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth."
"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."
"Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another."
"And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed."
"It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."
"The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time."
"if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it."
"There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss."
"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways."
"A closed mouth catches no flies."
"Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!"
"Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth."
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."
"Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed."