Mouth Shut

Famous quotes containing the words mouth and/or shut:

    If one’s mouth always wears a smile, one will always feel young.
    Chinese proverb.

    A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)