(443 quotes found)
“No call alligator long mouth till you pass him”
Jamaican Proverb
“This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong”
Bible
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth!”
St. Jerome
“Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.”
William Cullen Bryant
“The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.”
William Hazlitt
“A closed mouth gathers no foot”
Proverb
“This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.”
Dr. Frederick Leboyer
“Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.”
Charles Churchill
“Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.”
Ambrose Bierce
“RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.”
