“It is like sending a bunch of marauding foxes that had raided a henhouse back to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their previous victims.”

— Joe Higgins

The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1012/1224305642161.html, Sunday Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/shane-ross-paddy-confronts-banker-cabal-2907448.html, Sunday Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/john-drennan/john-drennan-unrealistic-promises-but-minimal-change-2907428.html

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Irish socialist politician 1949

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Sweep: Volume 2

“God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.”

John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs

Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

“He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly… like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

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“Newspapers chiefly exist to spooned the opinions of their readers back to them, much like an arse to mouth hosepipe.”

Charlie Brooker (1971) journalist, broadcaster and writer from England

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“The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

12 February 1851; compare the remark of John Wilkes about Samuel Johnson, "Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as Religion in mine" (20 March 1778), quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) by James Boswell.
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)