Keeping Your Mouth Shut Quotes

• If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Quoted in Observer, 15 Jan. 1950

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• There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Nice, Mouths, Ifs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.

  Dalai Lama

  Answers, Mouths, Cases

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• Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Clever, Half, Mouths

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.615, Penguin

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• X + Y + Z
  X is work.
  Y is play.
  Z is keep your mouth shut.

  Albert Einstein

  Play, Mouths

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• You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

  Andy Rooney

  Mouths, Better Off, Popping

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• A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

  Evan Esar

  Skills, Special, Mouths

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• Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Fog, People, Trying

  "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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• I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  Fred Melamed

  Strong, Jewish Tradition, Feelings

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