(637 quotes found)
“The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.”
Lauren Bacall
“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
Eleanora Duse
“A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.”
Bible
“Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.”
Ricky Gervais
“All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat ''Avoid foreign entanglements.'' All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.”
Robert E Sherwood
“I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.”
Sitting Bull
“His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo his nightcap.”
R. Z. Sheppard
“Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.”
Mark Twain
“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse”
Chuang Tzu
