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Quote:Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:The doors of wisdom are never shut.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:I shut my eyes in order to see.[Paul Gauguin]

Quote:Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.[David Hume]

Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens]

Quote:If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.[Albert Einstein]

Quote:Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.[Ansel Adams]

Quote:Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. [Ernest Hemingway]

Quote:I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. [Tom Lehrer]

Quote: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 mouth shut. [Albert Einstein]



Definitions of: shut

Definition: To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.

Definition: To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.

Definition: To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

Definition: To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.

Definition: Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.

Definition: Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.

Definition: Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.

Definition: Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, ă, &ebreve_;, &ibreve_;, &obreve_;, ŭ, always are.

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