Lips

Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of humans and many animals. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech. Human lips are a tactile sensory organ, and can be erogenous when used in kissing and other acts of intimacy.

He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin. ~ Book of Proverbs

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. ~ Book of Proverbs

I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison. ~ Alice Cooper

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. ~ William Shakespeare

Quotes

• Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
  • Book of Proverbs 12:22 (KJV)

• He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.
  • Book of Proverbs 13:3 (NIV)

• Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.
  • Song of Songs 4:3 (KJV)

• Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue.
  • Song of Songs 4:11 (KJV)

• I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
  You're poison running through my veins
  You're poison I don't wanna break these chains.
  • Alice Cooper and John McCurry, "Poison" (7 July 1989)

• Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
  • Charles Dickens

• Some asked me where the rubies grew,
  And nothing I did say,
  But with my finger pointed to
  The lips of Julia.
  • Robert Herrick, "The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls" in Hesperides (1648)

• Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
  • John Lyly, Midas (1591), Act I, Sc. 2

• Once positioned on their (children's) lips,
  even the scariest of words
  come out as a melodious lisp.
  • Suman Pokhrel, Children

• Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.
  • William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Sc. 1. Theobald's reading is "mind." Pope changed "mouth" to "mind." Reported in: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 534

• I can read and see the words that you have confined behind the wall of your lips in the expression on your face and in the gaze of your eyes.
  • Sanu Sharma, Pharak

• This time, she silenced me not by speaking, but by pressing her lips against my mouth.
  • Sanu Sharma, Pari

• Her lips were red, and one was thin,
  Compared to that was next her chin,
  (Some bee had stung it newly).
  • John Suckling, "A Ballad Upon a Wedding, St. 1, in Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

• With that she dasht her on the lippes,
  So dyed double red;
  Hard was the heart that gave the blow,
  Soft were those lippes that bled.
  • William Warner, Albion's England, Bk. VIII, Ch. XLI, St. 53

• Do you know how you got that dent, in your top lip? Way back, before you were born, I told you a secret, then I put my finger there and I said "Shhhhh!"
  • Gregory Widen, The Prophecy (1995 film), spoken by Gabriel (Christopher Walken)

• As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
  White-seeded is her crimson mouth.
  • Oscar Wilde, "La Bella Donna della Mia Mente" in Poèmes (1907)