“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
Source: Holidays on Ice
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“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Some one else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), I and I
“We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 842.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
“That beast of the Apocalypse, to whom is given a mouth speaking blasphemies, and to make war with the saints, is sitting on the throne of Peter, like a lion ready for his prey.”
Bestia illa de Apocalypsi, cui datum est os loquens blasphemias, et bellum gerere cum sanctis (Apoc. XIII, 5-7), Petri cathedram occupat, tanquam leo paratus ad praedam.
To Magister Geoffrey of Loretto (afterwards Archbishop of Bordeaux), Letter 37 ( c. 1131), in Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux (1904), Dr. Samuel John Eales, trans., John Hodges, London, p. 139. http://books.google.com/books?id=BmTZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA139&dq=%22That+beast+of+the+Apocalypse+%28Apoc.+xiii.+5-7%29%22&lr=&ei=H1-gS9e4PJTaMcmenNIH&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22That%20beast%20of%20the%20Apocalypse%20%28Apoc.%20xiii.%205-7%29%22&f=false
"That beast" to which Bernard refers is antipope Peter Leonis.
“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims