Close mouth. [ Proverb ]
A good mouth-filling oath. [ William Shakespeare ]
Living from hand to mouth. [ Du Bartas ]
Soft words hurt not the mouth. [ Proverb ]
A close mouth catches no flies. [ Proverb ]
He has a mouth for every matter. [ Proverb ]
What is a crab in a cow's mouth? [ Proverb ]
Into a mouth shut flies fly not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Honey is not for the ass's mouth. [ Proverb ]
Look not a gift horse in the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Your mouth hath beguiled your hands. [ Proverb ]
A cool mouth and warm feet live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A wise head hath a close mouth to it. [ Proverb ]
Keep your purse and your mouth close. [ Proverb ]
A full purse makes the mouth run over. [ Proverb ]
Keep thy mouth shut, but thy eyes open.
One mouth doth nothing without another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The early morning has gold in its mouth. [ Franklin ]
Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. [ George Herbert ]
As fit as a fritter for a friar's mouth. [ Proverb ]
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. [ Joseph Roux ]
Here lies the body of Jonathan Near
Whose mouth it stretched from ear to ear.
Tread softly, stranger, o'er this wonder,
For if he yawns, you're gone, by thunder! [ Epitaph ]
Laughter is common in the mouth of fools.
Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. [ Proverb ]
Keep together here, lest, running thither.
We unawares run into danger's mouth. [ Milton ]
The heart does not think all the mouth says. [ Ariosto ]
A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth. [ Proverb ]
Then shall our names
Familiar in his mouth as household words.
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. [ William Shakespeare ]
Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, Sc. 2 ]
The mouth obeys badly when the heart murmurs. [ Voltaire ]
Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? [ German Proverb ]
All meat is not the same in every man's mouth. [ Proverb ]
What art thou? Have not I
An arm as big as thine? A heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, ate bigger, for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth. [ William Shakespeare ]
All is not gospel that comes out of his mouth. [ Proverb ]
He sneaks as if he would creep into his mouth. [ Proverb ]
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. [ Tusser ]
To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. [ George Herbert ]
From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
If I am a fool, put you your finger in my mouth. [ Proverb ]
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [ Campistron ]
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]
You have always a ready mouth for a ripe cherry. [ Proverb ]
What is good in the mouth, may be bad in the maw. [ Proverb ]
Who hath bitter in his mouth spits not all sweet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. [ Addison ]
The fox praises the meat out of the crow's mouth. [ Proverb ]
It is no more to him than a crab in a cow's mouth. [ Proverb ]
In the mouth of a bad dog falls often a good bone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. [ Swift ]
Truth may sometimes come out of the devil's mouth. [ Proverb ]
As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. [ Cato ]
Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. [ Proverb ]
Love in the heart is better than honey in the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. [ Bible ]
That word grace
in an ungracious mouth is but profane. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every man is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
You may gape long enough ere a bird fly into your mouth. [ Proverb ]
He'll never have enough till his mouth is full of mould. [ Proverb ]
She did not mince matters (make a small mouth about it). [ French Proverb ]
The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth - it catches. [ William Shakespeare ]
The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom. [ Spanish Proverb ]
As irrecoverable as a lump of butter in a greyhound's mouth. [ Proverb ]
Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. [ Bible ]
The butcher looked for his knife when he had it in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
The evil that comes out of your mouth, flies into your bosom. [ Proverb ]
Mouth civility is no great pains, but may turn to good account. [ Proverb ]
He that hath no honey in his pot, let him have it in his mouth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that has a mouth of his own should not say to another, Blow
. [ Proverb ]
When the heart is a fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth. [ Proverb ]
If your hand be in a lion's mouth, get it out as fast as you can. [ Proverb ]
Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance. [ A. Ricard ]
Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth but a sting in its tail. [ H. Ballou ]
Unjust gains may be sweet in the mouth, but will be bitter in the belly. [ Proverb ]
The Sibyl, speaking with inspired mouth, sends her voice to remotest ages. [ Heraclitus ]
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth. [ Cervantes ]
He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
The shadow of a sound, - a voice without a mouth, and words without a tongue. [ Paul Chatfield ]
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. [ Proverb ]
The smaller the calibre of mind, the greater the bore of a perpetually open mouth. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. [ Whipple ]
The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. [ Bible ]
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth: a stranger, and not thine own lips. [ Bible ]
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. [ Madden ]
It is better to live by begging one's bread than to gratify the mouth at the expense of others. [ Hitopadesa ]
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. [ Bible ]
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. [ Bible ]
Read and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth and chew the cud of understanding. [ Congreve ]
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the inkpot. [ L'Estrange ]
Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]
It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. [ Bible ]
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]
Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial. [ Propertius ]
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. [ Victor Hugo ]
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use. [ F. Osborn ]
The calumniator is like the dragon that pursued a woman, but, not being able to overtake her, opened his mouth and threw a flood after her to drown her. [ Edward Blunt ]
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another; if thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter; if thou receive them, they flee forward and wound the receiver. [ Quarles ]
When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]
My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]