Their Mouths Quotes

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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. — T. Berry Brazelton
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. — Thomas Carlyle
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. — Sun Tzu
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march… — Sun Tzu
It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened… — Mary Heaton Vorse
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put… — William Shakespeare
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are… — Charles Darwin
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. — Thomas Reed
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is… — Karl Rahner
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to… — Alison McGhee
The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths. — Roddy Doyle
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing… — Sallust
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. — Jack Kemp
Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut. — Sparky Anderson
I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell… — Dennis Miller
Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,… — P.J. O'Rourke
We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not… — Menno Simons
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences… — Max Nordau
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and… — Origen

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