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From new transmitters came the old stupidities. Wisdom was passed on from mouth to mouth.


Bertolt Brecht

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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels...
RICHARD WRIGHT BE HEARD! BE STRONG! BE PROUD! I WANNA MAKE SOME NOISE!
LEMONADE MOUTH Living from hand to mouth.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS From your mouth to God's ears.
BEATRICE ARTHUR I live from mouth to hand.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
OTTO SCHUWDRMER Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
OTTO SCHUWDRMER I'm me, I live from film to mouth.
ALAN RUDOLPH It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew ...
SARAH WATERS His face was all bloody. He had blood coming from his nose and mouth, and he was flopping (on the gr...
JULIE WILSON He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer
JAMAICAN PROVERB A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
PROVERB A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
SPANISH PROVERB I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projec...
ADRIENNE BAILON I'd wake up in the morning and my mouth would be so dry from breathing with my mouth all night.
BRAD HOAG I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and pop...
CAITLIN MORAN Why do such lies spew from thy mouth?
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR I'm me, I live from film to mouth.
ALAN RUDOLPH They started hitting on me and threw me to the ground. I was bleeding from the mouth they seen that ...
ALYSA STEWART Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it ge...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act; When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU They had a fever, were coughing and bleeding from the mouth.
HUSEYIN AVNI SAHIN VOJNI ŽUPNIK: Hoću reći, mira ima i u ratu, ima on svojih mirovnih mjesta. Rat naime zadovoljava ...
BERTOLT BRECHT NAREDNIK: Vidi se, davno tu nije bilo rata. Pa kako da onda bude morala, pitam se ja? Mir, to je pus...
BERTOLT BRECHT Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
BIBLE He was having seizures and was in shock. He was bleeding from his mouth, and they (an Emergency Mana...
ANTHONY FARRISI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
BIBLE Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
ANTHONY KIEDIS Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobiliz...
EDUARDO PAES They came in here and punched us in the mouth.
BILL POWELL My personal style is really different from 'Lemonade Mouth.'
BRIDGIT MENDLER Listening usually requires that you stop your own mouth from moving.
TERENCE T. GORSKI Watching 'Old Boy' is like getting hit in the mouth.
JEFF DAVIDSON Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes ...
JILL LEPORE She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
BIBLE I have a big mouth.
JULIE BOWEN I have such a big mouth.
KELLY HU So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.
CHUCK ZITO Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it fr...
ILONA ANDREWS Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Even Donald Trump can't prevent something from coming out of someone's mouth.
RICHARD COURTNEY Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
HESIOD Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.
AMIT KALANTRI When I met Julia Roberts, the only thing that came out my mouth was, 'Thank you.'
SUKI WATERHOUSE The mouth of an old man may smell but the advice coming form it is sweet.
VIKRANT PARSAI Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING The Wisdom that guides and guards is not on the lips, but in the heart.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, wha...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL You listen to me, woman: you’re mine! I’ll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!” Hi...
SHIRLEE BUSBEE And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and water...
BIBLE Having June Jones offer him a scholarship personally, that was something else. That's hearing it fro...
LAAU FEAGAI I got a big mouth.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."

[From: 19 Lessons On T...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN The best recruitment strategy is word of mouth from your current employees. We've been getting lots ...
JAY BELEW His eye was already swollen shut, completely shut. It was already turning colors. Blood was pouring ...
DEMETRA BLEVINS Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA Why is it OK to kiss someone in the mouth but not OK to drink from the water bottle?
VIKRANT PARSAI The children are definitely getting a benefit from this because it?s impossible to learn with proble...
CLAUDIA SMITH I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his ...
JOHN BUNYAN I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth ...
MIKA The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged th...
MEG CABOT Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
AMIT KALANTRI As I speak, I’m reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come o...
LISA SEE If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of th...
THEODOR MOMMSEN 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 There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
JOHN UPDIKE The saying, give us this day our daily bread simply means,let us all live from hand to mouth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.
GORDON GEE Idiot," I said, before grinning broadly and crushing his mouth to mine.
"We need to pick new p...
MOLLY HARPER Yes, I am your enemy, as I was in my other incarnations, but that is my nature, and it is something ...
E.G.KARDOS I was running my mouth.
MATT LAPORTA I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
RUDYARD KIPLING It's old, but it's hot. There's even a Word of Mouth Marketing Association.
ANGELA GORDON Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS It has been passed down in many texts of old and by the word of mouth; that no matter the strength o...
IMANIA MARGRIA It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A kiss is mouth to mouth resusitation without medical necessity.
JOACHIM FUCHSBERGER I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing
J.R. WARD When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe...
M. SCOTT PECK We must move from denigration to integration if we are to achieve a peaceful world.
DAVID FRISKO TEACHER The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper Ne...
ALAN HOVHANESS After I pitched, Greg Maddux came to me, and he said, 'How are you feeling? And I said my mouth was ...
ANGEL GUZMAN Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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