The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. — Gunter Grass
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. — Patrick Rothfuss
Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth. — American Proverbs
Short Keep My Mouth Shut Quotes
You must keep quiet or say only things that improve silence — Greek Proverbs
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. — Sam Rayburn
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln
More idiots should just shut their mouths. — Chris Martin
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. — Ernest Hemingway
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. — Publilius Syrus
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. — Groucho Marx
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. — Muddy Waters
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. — Epictetus
Speak little and to the purpose. — Proverbs
Keep My Mouth Shut Image Quotes
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Keep To Yourself Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. — Gail Devers
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar
Always behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like hell underwater.
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders. — Yuri Kochiyama
Fear is what stops you. Courage is what keeps you going.
I hope my life is a testimony to show people no matter what you go through, how many hurdles are placed in front of you, how many bumps and bruises you get, to pick yourself up and be resilient and keep on trucking. — Gucci Mane
Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things — Jay-Z
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path. — Gay Hendricks
Shutting Quotes
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. — Phyllis Diller
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
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up. — Nizar Qabbani
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
3 things to keep private: Your love. Your income. Your next move.
My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. — Anthony Jeselnik
One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time. — Jeff Cooper
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. — Will Rogers
Shutting Down Quotes
Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one! — Joseph Stalin
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. — Garrison Keillor
Small to medium sized enterprises make up over 60% of employment in the UK. It wouldn’t be crazy to imagine half shutting down as they’re bankrupted by energy costs. People need to get serious of what a true economic collapse would look like. It ain’t like a simple recession. — Philip Pilkington
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Happiness is that state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and your mind stops running into the future or running into the past to regret something or to plan something. — Naval Ravikant
If the government has the capacity to shut down your bank account and starve you to death and get you thrown out of your home and make it so you can’t feed your children, it has the capacity to make slaves of all of us. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers. — Max Keiser
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas. — James David Vance
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programs between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offense. — Maajid Nawaz
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us. — Chamath Palihapitiya
You could be worth 100 million dollars, and go into the war room, and go into a specific room, and the fact that you’re worth 100 million dollars will no longer matter. If you’re sending a girl flowers, and she’s going on a girls trip, then you will get shut down. — Andrew Tate
Mouth Quotes
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you. — Hafez
By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth! — Paula White
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances. — Kenneth Copeland
Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life. — A. A. Gill
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home. — Warsan Shire
If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real. — DMX
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
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
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
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut. — Mika
I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut. — Madonna Ciccone
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. — Jim Butcher
I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture. — Steve Hamilton
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.
I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me. — Michael Gambon
It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want. — James Van Der Beek
I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now. — Jane Wyman
And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. — Janice Dickinson
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
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
I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist. — Anna Quindlen
I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump. — Chris Christie
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
It used to be that I could talk to someone in Texas and nobody would hear about it. Now, the moment I open my mouth it's all over the world. The second I say something, guys in Germany know about it. It's basically a wonderful thing because more information is spread, but you have to keep your mouth shut. — Paul Reed Smith
I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward. — Hunter S. Thompson
I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell . — John Lennon
I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.' — Johnny Cash
I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone. — Anthony Jeselnik
I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher. — Mark Martin
I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson. — Christina Hendricks
Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut. — J. Ogden Armour
I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet. — Shirley Jackson
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut. — Prince Philip
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
I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut. — James Badge Dale
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
I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut. — Gabrielle
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. — Garrett Hedlund
But I love you, “ he whispered. “Doesn't that matter?” “Of course it matters. So much. Can't you see? That only makes it more… necessary.” His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? I can keep my mouth shut, Wanda. I won't say it again. You can be with Jared, if that's what you want. Just stay. — Stephenie Meyer
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
You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope. — Megan Whalen Turner
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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