Mouthing Quotes
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The funny thing is, that mouthing off three years ago about how we were
going to be the biggest band in the Gallagher rendering public advice would seem to be
well conceived.
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More Mouthing Quotes
People who been told that the Reform Party consists of well-meaning simpletons mouthing naive solutions to complex problems should study Harper's speeches on behalf of Reform.
preston manning— Chapter Eight, The Founding Assembly, p. 149
Neville annoys me by mouthing the arguments of complete pacifism while piling up armaments.
neville chamberlain— Clement Attlee in a letter to Tom Attlee (22 February 1939), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy. 1933-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 177.
A man of true science... uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
Herman Melville— Ch. 63This has sometimes been paraphrased: A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. where "hard" can readily be taken to imply "harsh" words rather than those "difficult to understand".
