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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind.
UNKNOWN Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference ...
PLUTARCH Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide differenc...
PLUTARCH Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars re...
AMIE KAUFMAN A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
HENRY FORD When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES We?re dreaming of the day Sam opens his eyes.
EMILY RINEY A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that wa...
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
GEORG TRAKL He's a lovable man. He opens up his heart and gives his heart to everyone.
DAVID FOSTER Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens h...
ROBERT BOLT Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO An angry man rarely stops to let facts get in the way of his fury.
NIKKI SEX Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his family.
BRIAN JOHNSON A blind man can see his mouth
IRISH SAYINGS “Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes.”
QUOTES DADDY An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man wh...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUT My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH When my mind closes his eyes I try to forgive and forget; but whenever it opens at least one of his ...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse / Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure an...
DAN KROKOS I think I might kiss him. He's right here. And his lips are hanging open (mouth breather) and his ey...
RAINBOW ROWELL The same God who opens doors also shuts doors. We must be submissive enough to His will to understan...
JILLIAN HALL He pulled her close kissing her mouth taking her by surprise. He stepped back passion smoldering in ...
AMANDA STEPHAN ...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch.
It was Zsadist.
His eyes closed, his h...
J.R. WARD Premier Campbell could make better use of his time in Europe by investigating elder care models in S...
JOYCE JONES And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon m...
D.H. LAWRENCE Robert has really added another dimension coming off the edge. And Cato is really coming into his ow...
MONTAE REAGOR When God opens a door no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been th...
MERCEDES LACKEY He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine, To h...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The wife of an elder brother is for his younger ,brother the wife of a Guru, but the wife of the you...
GURU NANAK Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.
JO NESBø Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet,...
GLEN COOK And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life...
ANNE HOLM Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
HESIOD A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compe...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The mouth of a man is a terrible opening and his tongue is a terrible fire dragon.
VIKRANT PARSAI If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
THOMAS GRAY The man who waits for things to turn up has his eyes fixed on his toes
CRESWELL MACLAUGHLIN When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
PRINCE PHILIP EDINBURGH When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
PRINCE PHILIP EDINBURGH When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
PRINCE PHILIP The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees...
ISRAEL BAAL SHEM Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simp...
NEIL GAIMAN The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wron...
CRISS JAMI so, what are you in for? MANSLAUGHTER!!! I SLAUGHTERED A MAN!! JUST LIKE A PIG!!! PUT HIM ON A SPIT ...
BRIAN REGAN I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBERG I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBURG Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
ARABIC PROVERB A hungry man, an angry man.
UNKNOWN The marigold, whose courtier's face echoes the sun, and doth unlace her at his rise, at his full sto...
JOHN CLEVELAND When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
PRINCE PHILIP So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.
CHUCK ZITO A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Man tends to see truth through his eyes only, be careful.
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a ...
HERTA MüLLER A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA You're an angry man,
LARRY KING With fireflies in her eyes
She blew all her words into his mouth with a stroke of a poignant Ki...
ANKITMISHRA ...
'All the hard work of a man is to fill his mouth; yet his appetite is never satisfied."
ANONYMOUS His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.
DOUGLAS FEAVER And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed
OSCAR WILDE How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
FRANK HERBERT Pain lanced through his neck. He gasped and his eyes flew open; Simon was sitting up on him, staring...
CASSANDRA CLARE A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER Wealthy is the man who gazes upon the shine his mountain of gold Brave is the man who saw his last s...
DEVLIN PAJARON Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart
CHINESE PROVERBS A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.
VIKRANT PARSAI Mathias lifted his head and looked directly into Mina's eyes. His smile was gone. Possession filled ...
GAYLE DONNELLY Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
BIBLE I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBURG Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now...
LAUREN OLIVER A wise man's heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction.
DENNIS ALEJO Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or no...
LEONE LEVI A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is ...
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CATO ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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CATO ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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CATO THE ELDER Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER Carthage must be destroyed.
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LARRY ELDER Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private cha...
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MARCUS PORCIUS CATO not that I might die learned—but that I might not die unlearned
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it
CATO THE CENSOR Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasin...
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR He who fears death has already lost the life he covets
CATO THE CENSOR Carthago delenda est
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO not that I might die learned—but that I might not die unlearned
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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JOHN ELDER ROBISON There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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PLINY THE ELDER Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDER The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
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PLINY THE ELDER Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,...
PLINY THE ELDER Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ...
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them...
PLINY THE ELDER To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly...
PLINY THE ELDER The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PLINY THE ELDER Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, b...
PLINY THE ELDER Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDER Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDER What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in ...
PLINY THE ELDER To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flo...
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess th...
PLINY THE ELDER The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER