“Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny… it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.”

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

Sam Rayburn (1882–1961) lawmaker from Bonham, Texas

“If you only ever read one book in your life… I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.”

Simon Munnery (1967) British comedian

“All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania – that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him.”

Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient

“If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend… keeping your f***ing mouth shut.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“no' when no one answered, Derek looked from face to face, then settled his glower in me. 'absolutely not.'
'um, I was the one keeping my mouth shut' I said.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

“I think it's possible to be too quick-witted, too smart to be an actor. You have to turn off a lot of your brain, in a way. When you see a fellow actor just missing it, it's hard to keep your mouth shut, but you have to. Or see a director so stupid he couldn't direct vomit into a paper bag. And he's in charge, and it's really hard to keep your mouth shut.”

William H. Macy (1950) American actor, screenwriter, teacher and director in theater, film and television

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Never miss a chance… to keep your mouth shut.”

Robert Newton Peck book A Day No Pigs Would Die

“Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.”

Peter Singer book Animal Liberation