"I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute."
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"An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth."
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"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth."
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"Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth."
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"I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this."
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"Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me."
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"Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?"
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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."
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"Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does."
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"All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs."
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"And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut."
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"I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut."
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"Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor."
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"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."
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"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."
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"My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises"
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"Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl."
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"I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut."
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"True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa."
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"Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth."
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