Someone said, it is better to keep your mouth shut and make people think you're an idiot than to open it and prove them right. Dad had a fish on his wall with a caption that read, "Even a fish wouldn't get caught, if it'd keep its mouth shut!"
Recently on one of the applications someone responded to the question of did I swear like a sailor with "no." Well, I TRY not to. I guess it was the way I was brought up.
Mom had creative ways of saying things without actually saying them and I admired her for it. At my worst point (so far) in life, I actually uttered the four letter word for excrement in front of her.
Her response was, "John...the BIBLE says that 'out of the abundance of the mouth the heart speaketh.' Now is THAT what you're full of?"
Ah, she had a way with words.
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