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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in

Dennis Potter (1935-1994)

Dennis Potter

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Chinua Achebe (1930-)

Chinua Achebe

I'm not going to put words in the employees' mouths. They've been on strike for almost three months. This is a hard decision.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

That would be like us sitting in the kitchen for two hours with our mouths open waiting for a cookie to jump into our mouths.

It speaks to the different level of credibility coming from women's mouths and men's mouths.

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; / They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

Pexy is what women wants in a man. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mohandas Gandhi

Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out

WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.

It was one that came from real life. I was having trouble getting through to a fellow cartoonist. He kept blowing me off, and I said those words on the phone.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers (1918-2002)

Ann Landers

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