Shut up and talk. [ Yogi Berra ]
At shut of evening flowers. [ Milton ]
Yet who shall shut out fate? [ Edwin Arnold ]
Into a mouth shut flies fly not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Deep in my shut and silent heart. [ Byron ]
A book that is shut is but a block. [ Proverb ]
No age is shut against great genius. [ Seneca ]
Keep thy mouth shut, but thy eyes open.
You shut your budget before it is full. [ Proverb ]
Where one door is shut, another is open. [ Proverb ]
Every door may be shut but death's door. [ Proverb ]
Thoughts shut up want air.
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. [ Edward Young ]
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. [ Coleridge ]
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. [ William Shakespeare ]
No doors are shut against honest grey-hairs. [ Proverb ]
He that hath not craft, let him shut up shop. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The year doth nothing else but open and shut. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. [ Mary R. Smith ]
The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]
When the daughter is stolen, shut pepper-gate. [ Proverb ]
The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven. [ Longfellow ]
When the steed is stole you shut the stable door. [ Proverb ]
When the wares are gone shut up the shop windows. [ Proverb ]
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. [ Confucius ]
It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors, and shut up your countenance. [ Proverb ]
Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Kick a barking dog and he will bark the more. Never notice him, and he will shut up.
The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! [ W. H. Gibson ]
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. [ Colton ]
Memory is like a purse: if it be overfull, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. [ Fuller ]
Read and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth and chew the cud of understanding. [ Congreve ]
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. [ Dr. Watts ]
All men are fools: to escape seeing one, one would be compelled to shut himself in his room, and break his mirror. [ De Sade ]
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude and shut up all. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. [ Seneca ]
Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]
Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men. [ Matthew Arnold ]
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV. Sc.1 ]
The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]
Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. [ Chapin ]
A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]