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I didn't really say everything I said. - Yogi Berra If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. - Ashleigh Brilliant I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. - John Calvin What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely. - Kahlil Gibran Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. - Edgar Watson Howe Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. - Alphonse Karr (Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr) I never made a dime talking. - Sebastian Spering Kresge, only words at a 1953 speech at Harvard University A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered. - Old French Saying No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business. - Plutarch Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. - Marcel Proust The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which he will not like. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
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