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Quotes About Mouths

Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
~ Pliny (the Elder)
I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Everything that has been wrestled from doubt I welcome-the mouths that burst open after long knowledge of what it is to be mute.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The odors of perfume were fanned out on the summer air by the whirling vents of the grottoes where the women hid like undersea creatures, under electric cones, their hair curled into wild whorls and peaks, their eyes shrewd and glassy, animal and sly, their mouths painted a neon red.
~ Ray Bradbury
His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this - If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.
~ Douglas Adams
Have faith. The Lord can magnify the words you speak and make them mighty. God doesn't ask you to convert but rather to open your mouths.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.
~ Kenneth Cole
all I could think of all that week was flowers for breath and flowers for eyes and mouths full of flowers, armpits of them, the backs of knees, laps, groins overflowing with flowers and all I could draw was leaves and flowers, the whorls of roses, the dark foliage.
~ Ali Smith
We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
There's someone I want you to meet," she said, a little nervously. "Before you do, I just want you to know that I didn't like keeping this a secret." She tapped the stone again, and Gordon appeared. Eyes widened. Mouths dropped open. Skulduggery remained still.
~ Derek Landy
Pigs MAY whistle, but they've poor mouths for it
~ L.M. Montgomery
Pigs MAY whistle, but they've poor mouths for it, said Miss Cornelia.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Had [Shakespeare] put into the mouths of his heroes only prophecies that were later confirmed, he would have made a case for the total predictability of history. The false prophets are there for a purpose; they testify to the unpredictability of the historical future.
~ Ágnes Heller
We're your legal advisors.' Which they weren't, obviously. Reacher knew that. Army lawyers don't travel in pairs and breathe through their mouths.
~ Lee Child
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I permit myself this one generalization: Americans have mastered the universe, but have no dominion over their mouths; whereas India is impotent, but her children tend to have excellent teeth.)
~ Salman Rushdie
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent
~ Allen Ginsberg
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
~ Clifton Fadiman
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
~ Margaret Atwood
Until recently, when both of them went extinct, there were two species of frogs, known as gastric-brooding frogs, that carried their eggs in their stomachs and gave birth to little froglets through their mouths.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
There is one thing, and one thing only, you can do for me," said Lopez. His voice was peculiarly sweet, and when he spoke his words seemed to mean more than when they came from other mouths. But Mr. Wharton did not like sweet voices and mellow, soft words, — at least not from men's mouths.
~ Anthony Trollope
Do you know what my grandmother used to say? What a shame it is we have mouths, because if we didn't we'd never go hungry
~ Sholom Aleichem