I focus on the taste as I chew

“Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Taste your words before you spit them out

— Anonymous

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's…

— Stewart O'Nan

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.

— Jim Gaffigan

“Don't swallow: your bulging, blushing cheeks display the saliva you want to share.”

— Bauvard

Bite off more than you can chew, you might find out how much of a badass you are

— Anonymous

“David tears a chocolate chip cookie in half. “Want some?” He holds a piece out to me. The chocolate glistens, and the brown-buttery inside…

— Claire LaZebnik

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

— Bob Weir

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

— Lesley Gore

“We tend to chew life into pieces to make it easier for us to swallow, but the challenge is to know that life is…

— Karl Kristian Flores

“Bite your tongue. Don't let anyone bite it off.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

— Paul Hogan

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a…

— Jack Handey

“To chew and digest everything, however—that is the genuine swine-nature! Ever to say ye-a—that hath only the ass learnt, and those like it!”

— Anonymous