Mouths Quotes - Page 23

I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing

So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

I have no mouth. And I must scream.

All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.

Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.