Top 8 Keeping Your Mouth Shut Quotes

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

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

Patrick Rothfuss

Clever, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Half

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

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

Evan Esar

Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Skills, Special

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

Andy Rooney

Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Mouths, Better Off

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, Keeping Your Mouth Shut

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

Albert Einstein

Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Play, Mouths

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, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, People

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