Top 66 Mouths Shut Quotes
#1. Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.
Saadi
#2. I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Henry L. Stimson
#3. I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.
Madonna Ciccone
#4. I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#5. But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.
Elizabeth Bowen
#6. Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.
William Gibson
#7. He thought of the Finishing School for Barbies where long-legged, high-breasted, stomachless girls went to get shaved clean, get their toenails painted pink, their nipples removed, and all body opening sewn shut, except for their mouths, which curved in perpetual smiles and led nowhere.
Kate Wilhelm
#8. As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
Prince Philip
#10. Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
Evan Esar
#11. There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.
Viggo Mortensen
#12. If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.
Muhammad Ali
#13. You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.
Frederick Douglass
#14. Sophie seemed to understand sisterhood. Sometimes sisters need to shut their mouths and drop it. This was definitely one of those times.
Joanna Wylde
#15. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
CM Punk
#16. Pride is what keeps us from celebrating what others have accomplished. Pride is what causes us to keep our mouths shut when we should be pouring on the praise.
Andy Stanley
#17. God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.
John Piper
#18. Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.
Christina Engela
#19. He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.
Cassandra Clare
#20. Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman
#21. When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin
#22. You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.
Max Lucado
#23. Shut your role and know your mouth.
Mick Foley
#24. When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.
Mark Driscoll
#25. You don't get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn't shout "Irish Power", "Jew Power", [or] "Italian Power". They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
Whitney M. Young
#26. In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.
Dalai Lama
#27. If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.
John Piper
#28. There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian wouldn't tattle to save his own mother. Indians, over the years, have learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.
Brady Udall
#29. ... those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.
Alan Dean Foster
#30. But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.
Bradley Nowell
#31. The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.
Frank Stella
#32. The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.
Dean Koontz
#33. You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.
Andy Rooney
#34. Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
John Jakes
#36. More idiots should just shut their mouths.
Chris Martin
#37. Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.
James Carville
#38. Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.
J. Ogden Armour
#39. When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
Georges Duhamel
#41. Being successful is the only way to keep doubters' and haters' mouths shut.
Mohith Agadi
#42. I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.
Gabrielle
#43. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
Anonymous
#44. If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
Sue Grafton
#45. The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
Willem Dafoe
#46. Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
Sparky Anderson
#47. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
Malcolm Forbes
#48. Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us
to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.
Tamora Pierce
#49. One idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot.
Yssubramanyam
#50. I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can't keep their mouths shut.
Jack McDevitt
#51. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
Thomas Pynchon
#52. There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
Myrtle Reed
#53. You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
Megan Whalen Turner
#55. The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Taslima Nasrin
#56. As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
Allen West
#57. Since I had met him, it had occurred to me that it would probably be amazing what we could all see and hear if we would just shut our mouths a little more, and stop trying to constantly hear our own voice.
Mia Sheridan
#58. If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
Lewis Goldberg
#59. The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.
Al Bernstein
#60. To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.
Rick Warren
#61. 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
#62. X + Y + Z
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
#63. Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#66. If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep
your mouth shut
Simon Munnery
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