Top 100 Quotes About The Mouth
#1. I've learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why you would want to look any horse the mouth considering how infrequently they brush is beyond me.
Robert Mankoff
#2. All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do
Randall Cobb
#3. But Park's parents loved each other. They kissed each other on the mouth, no matter who was watching. What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back?
Rainbow Rowell
#4. Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.
Jack London
#5. Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.
Mike Myers
#6. Even so, a lie in print looks truer than the truth sounds from the mouth of a fool.
Donal Ryan
#7. Genghis snorted. Men always die in war. Their kings expect it. I want them to know that if they resist me, they are putting their hand in the mouth of a wolf. They will lose everything and they can expect no mercy.
Conn Iggulden
#8. Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.
George Lois
#9. I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
Hugo Claus
#10. Not to make sweeping generalizations about men, but I can pretty well guess how this conversation would go down. Jack: Everything okay? You seem down in the mouth lately. Maxime: It is fine. Jack: Okay, just checking. See ya.
Jennifer Coburn
#11. I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#12. The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.
Blu Cantrell
#13. these stones to become loaves of bread." 4But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'*
Anonymous
#14. Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.
Anna Akhmatova
#15. What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.
J. Vernon McGee
#16. I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
China Mieville
#17. Ask a conventional person for an answer, and you are likely to get it; ask for a reason for his answer, and you are likely to get a punch in the mouth.
John Mark Reynolds
#18. These be Three silent things: The Falling snow ... the hour Before the dawn ... the mouth of one Just dead.
Adelaide Crapsey
#19. When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#20. It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.
J.M. Coetzee
#21. It had, however, been declared by his own physician to be a case of natural causes. Bentzen had gone to see the man and explained that falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back was a disease caused by an unwise opening of the mouth.
Terry Pratchett
#22. A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;
Henry David Thoreau
#23. May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
Thomas A Kempis
#24. Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy!
Matt Kindt
#25. No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. The lovely effects of champagne were quite gone and only the nasty ones were left; the taste in the mouth, the splitting ache in the brow and the impotence of not being able to clarify one's thoughts.
Monica Dickens
#27. As I speak, I'm reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come out of the mouth, meaning that words can be like bombs themselves.
Lisa See
#29. The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
Austin O'Malley
#30. There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#31. Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
Francis Parkman
#32. He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. "You will come, won't you? Promisse!" he whispered.
Cornelia Funke
#33. Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
Simon Newcomb
#34. I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating
guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for
the ears.
Swati Avasthi
#35. Aw," Dana said when they'd put some distance between them and Evan. "He loves you."
"Dana, that's what boys say when they don't really know you but want to have sex with you. He's lucky I didn't go back and punch him in the mouth.
Robin Alexander
#36. The poor guy," she said, and this was remorse over her savage speed and rashness as well as pity for this boy, haunting the mouth of an alley with that toy of swift decisions.
Saul Bellow
#37. I pulled my arm back and then let it snap forward, punching him in the mouth with as much power as I could force out of my body. There
Stephenie Meyer
#38. I collect words
they are sweets in the mouth of sound.
Sally Gardner
#39. If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
Theodor Mommsen
#40. Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.
Anna Camp
#41. Consummation is consumption
We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume
All joys are cakes and vanish in eating
All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth
Wilfred Owen
#42. I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.
Rebecca Stead
#43. I've never ridden a bike before."
Horse leaned over and gave me a quick kiss on the mouth.
"Lookin' forward to being your first, babe.
Joanna Wylde
#44. Gun pop off like the mouth of Ann Coulter ...
Crooked I
#45. Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.
Lanza Del Vasto
#46. Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
William Cobbett
#47. Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.)
Charles De Leusse
#48. If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing ... what do you think's gonna happen when i get out of here?
Charles Manson
#50. Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
Jandy Nelson
#51. The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.
Eugene H. Peterson
#52. Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.
Ben Marcus
#53. There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
T. S. Eliot
#54. The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.
Steven Pinker
#55. Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.
Albert Einstein
#56. 'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.
Shawn Amos
#58. ... in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force.
Ina May Gaskin
#59. The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.
Robert Pinsky
#61. Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
John Lyly
#62. You're mad," the fallen angel said.
"Get me some Alka Seltzer and I'll foam at the mouth, too.
Jim Butcher
#63. The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.
Meister Eckhart
#64. No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.
Aeschylus
#65. When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear ... also very suggestive ... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.
H.R. Giger
#66. If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.
Mohammed Emami-Kashani
#67. Amazing! Slander only comes from the mouth because on paper it does not hold.
Abu Fennek
#68. The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.
Charles Capps
#69. Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ. - Albus Dumbledore
J.K. Rowling
#70. I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
Phyllis Diller
#71. I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#72. On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
Ilona Andrews
#73. I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.
Antonio Banderas
#74. The morning hour has gold at the mouth.
Max Muller
#75. Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
Samuel Johnson
#76. A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#77. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.
Nora Sakavic
#78. A man in whom violence boiled below the surface in much the same way that fresh-poured polenta waited for the chance to burn the mouth of anyone who tried to eat it.
Donna Leon
#79. If there's a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is." I shrugged, still watching the sky ... "I just want to know that he's there, so that I can die knowing there's going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.
Mira Grant
#80. what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing
our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what's proven most difficult
in being human
Rupi Kaur
#81. In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and Sagami as if brushed in ink in a single flowing stroke.
Haruo Shirane
#82. The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
Oscar Wilde
#83. I stop in front of Olivia and cup her face in my hands, kissing her sweetly on the mouth. She looks up at me with her liquid eyes and something in me melts away. I think to myself that I hope it wasn't something important. Something that I needed.
M. Leighton
#84. I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
Marina Sirtis
#85. White froth bubbles from the mouth of Chow Sze Teck. The airconditioner is still running and the room is dark. Slumped over the mahogany desk in his study, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Housing is, as always, immaculately dressed.
Wong Souk Yee
#86. Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction
this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
J.G. Holland
#87. Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?
Cassandra Clare
#88. Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness
Lao-Tzu
#89. You look down in the mouth. You all right?" "Lost a woman." "You'll have others and lose them too.
Charles Bukowski
#90. The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel, but I didn't move. Not being bullet proof is an idea I had had to get used to.
Raymond Chandler
#91. Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
Itzhak Perlman
#92. Falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back is a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth.
Terry Pratchett
#93. When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
Thomas A. Edison
#94. I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.
Jared Leto
#95. What the hell? Jack was over six feet tall and two hundred pounds with arms like a steel beam. He couldn't get away from that pasty-faced piece of painted pine straw? What a guy. I wanted to punch him in the mouth.
Fletcher McHale
#96. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Jerome
#97. An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#98. You are not letting me finish." Sedirion bowed his head apologetically. "Dreams are dreams. Money is money. Who cares where they come from. Am I the one to look a gift horse in the mouth?
Daniel Pearlman
#99. across the north plains of the Riddermark, Rohan the land of the Horse-lords. Ere long we shall come to the mouth of the Limlight that runs down from Fangorn to join the Great River. That is the
J.R.R. Tolkien
#100. What is a vow ... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?
Jane Yolen
