Mutter

Famous quotes containing the word 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 (1894–1961)

    “A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “Come round me, little childer;
    There, don’t fling stones at me
    Because I mutter as I go;
    But pity Moll Magee.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)