#mutter

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#again #battlefield #crash #dreams #guns

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#crowds #direction #just #move #mutter

I believe it’s always better to share the thing itself than the reason for sharing. Unless that thing happens to be something abstract, like a reason. Like my grandpa once muttered, “I don’t need a reason to have a reason.” Actually, I have no idea what he said since he was muttering. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #muttering #reason #funny

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #knife #mutter #needs #over