| "What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes" »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| "Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without." »Chuang-tzu |
| "It's good to shut up sometimes." »Marcel Marceau |
| "I shut my eyes in order to see." »Paul Gauguin |
| "The doors of wisdom are never shut." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger |
| "Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut." »Robert Newton Peck |
| "Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us." »Francis Beaumont |
| "shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." »William Osler |
| "I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up." »Tom Lehrer |
| "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water." »Sidney Goff |
| "'Are you lost, daddy' I asked tenderly. 'shut up,' he explained." »Ring Lardner |
| "Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint." »J. B. Yeats |
| "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." »Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn |
| "Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up." »Ogden Nash |
| "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." »Albert Einstein |
| "America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner." »Max Lerner |
| "When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril." »Harry S Truman |
| "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about." »Saskya Pandita |
| "It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts." »Patrick Henry |
| "If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." »Albert Einstein |
| "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." »Phyllis |
| "Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing." »Meg Chittenden |
| "Nursing Home Orderly You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You're in my world now, grandma." »Happy Gilmore |
| "A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party" »Les Brown |
| "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong |
| "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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