"As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut."
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"A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together."
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"Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that"
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"Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness."
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"Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth."
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
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"It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise."
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"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."
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"I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face."
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"I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right."
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"The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads."
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"Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral."
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"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."
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"Word of mouth is very powerful."
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"Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense."
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"I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended."
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"Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth."
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"When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth."
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"What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away."
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"Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen."
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