“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
Source: Holidays on Ice
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Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
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Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), I and I
“We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.”
Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
Steve Maraboli (1975)
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Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 842.
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“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“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.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
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 <br class="br">"That beast" to which Bernard refers is antipope Peter Leonis.
“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.”
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims