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

“Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.”
Source: The Warlord Wants Forever
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Source: Magic Bites
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 151 : exchange between 'LaBoeuf' and 'Rooster Cogburn'

“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
Source: Gunmetal Magic

“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”
Source: Gatsby Girls

“… You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons”
Source: Shadowfever

“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Moonlight making crosses
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”
Source: Crush
Source: Magic Bleeds

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Never miss a chance… to keep your mouth shut.”
Source: A Day No Pigs Would Die

I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Context: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.

“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”
The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Source: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Source: Magic Slays
Source: Magic Breaks

Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230
1920s
Variant: If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
"Killing the Love"
45 Mercy Street (1976)
Source: The Complete Poems

“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”
Source: Faefever
Source: Invitation Only

“I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.”

Source: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

Source: Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar

“with your name on my mouth
and a kiss that never
broke away from yours.”