Quotes About Keeping Your Mouth Shut

#1. You know, Suzy, they ain't no way in the world to get in trouble by keeping your mouth shut. You look back at every mess you ever got in and you'll find your tongue started it.

John Steinbeck

#2. A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

Evan Esar

#3. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

#4. Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

Dean Cavanagh

#5. I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

Fred Melamed

#6. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.

Kalan Sherrard

#8. You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

Andy Rooney

#9. In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.

Dalai Lama

#10. Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.

Lee Child

#11. (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

Thomas Mann

#12. X + Y + Z
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

#13. I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart.

Tegan Quin

#14. I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong ... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

Kenny Wormald

#15. I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

Jane Wyman

#16. Opening my mouth never works as well as keeping it shut and minding my own business." Hud

Jill Shalvis

#17. Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."

"Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.

Sylvain Neuvel

#18. A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.

Oswald Chambers

#19. Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny ... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

Julio Cortazar

#20. Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

J. Ogden Armour

#21. I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

Steve Hamilton

#22. She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.

Joan Smith

#23. You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.

Max Lucado

#24. I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

Christina Hendricks

#25. My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

Alan Sugar

#26. I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.

Greil Marcus

#27. I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

Mika.

#28. Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

Ernst Thalmann

#29. She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.

Sierra Hill

#30. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I'm just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can't help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most ... Himself.

Lauren Hammond

#31. Hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

Jim Butcher

#32. I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Madonna Ciccone

#33. No' when no one answered, Derek looked from face to face, then settled his glower in me. 'absolutely not.'
'um, I was the one keeping my mouth shut' I said.

Kelley Armstrong