Shut your mouth and you'll catch no flies


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If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in
SPANISH PROVERB
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
GEORGE HERBERT
If you've to keep your mouth shut, then keep your mouth shut, no matter what you're feeling.
SARVESH JAIN
A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB
A closed mouth catches no flies.
FRENCH PROVERB
A closed mouth catches no flies
FRENCH PROVERB
Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES
Because, where I'm from, you see no evil, you do no evil. If you see something, you keep your mouth ...
CHARLIE JOHNSON
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
ROBERT NEWTON PECK
“If you fear embarrassment, learn to keep your mouth shut”
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut
SOURCE UNKNOWN
In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer.
DALAI LAMA
An eagle does not catch flies.
PROVERB
The eagle does not catch flies
PROVERB
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
R A DICKSON
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
CALVIN JOHNSON
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
SAINT JEROME
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth sh...
ROBERT DE NIRO
I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep ...
DAN STEVENS
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
MARK TWAIN
Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHON
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
If you rest your chin on your hand when you think, it will help you keep your mouth shut.
VIKRANT PARSAI
So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.
EMMA STRAUB
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
MARK TWAIN
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
AMERICAN PROVERB
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
ANNE FRANK
As a radio talk show host I have learned a valuable lesson. Keep your mouth shut.
CARLOS GALINDO
As a radio talk show host I have learned a valuable lesson. Keep your mouth shut.
CARLOS E. GALINDO
A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
You're going to ... your mouth is going to be taped shut. I gave you fair warning.
JUDGE NANCY SAITTA
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
SAM RAYBURN
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN
Time flies and we walk thats the reason we never catch up with time.
NOMAN QAYYUM
Little cork-bodies poppers are really fun flies to catch them on.
CHUCK GREEN
Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.’ Coraline
NEIL GAIMAN
All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that har...
MARGARET ATWOOD
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and r...
RAMI BELSON
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Whenever you are angry shut your mouth. So that you can save yourself from loosing the beloved ones.
SEMERE SAHLEMARIAM
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Boys, tell your mother to shut her lying whore mouth before I shove the nearest apple down her throa...
JASON AARON
You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut yo...
BILL HICKS
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...
JIM BUTCHER
I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'....
SUZANNE COLLINS
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shu...
AMIT RAY
I wish I had kept my damn mouth shut.
JACK NICKLAUS
The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a sug...
MAX HAWTHORNE
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
RUSSIAN PROVERB
I think I should have kept my mouth shut back in January,
CHARLES GRASSLEY
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z k...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z ke...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, “I’m fine, I’m not really loving your social skil...
NICOLE RAE
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 ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mo...
JOHN DRYDEN
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
They told me it was none of my concern and to keep my mouth shut.
BEN CARTER
Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
BETTY CUTHBERT
You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut
SALLY BERGER
If A is success in life, then A is equal to X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z - keepin...
ANONYMOUS
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping you...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping you...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
His eye was already swollen shut, completely shut. It was already turning colors. Blood was pouring ...
DEMETRA BLEVINS
There's all kinds of ugly in this world~ For some, all they need to do is keep their mouth shut & no...
BJ MORIN
It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN
It's big enough for her," said the chat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN
Don't mess with the best or youll die like the rest
LUDO MILNE
I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.
JANE WYMAN
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut
KOREAN PROVERB
Whatever flies your rocket.
ASHLEY DAWN MCGOUGH
I have no mouth, and I must scream.
HARLAN ELLISON
Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth ev...
VIKRANT PARSAI
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
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