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Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. - Alphonse Kerr I never made a dime talking. - Sebastian Spering Kresge, only words at a 1953 speech at Harvard University It is a sad thing when men have neither wit to speak well nor judgment to hold their tongues. - Jean de la Bruyere We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much. - Jean de la Bruyere We oftener say things because we can say them well than because they are sound and reasonable. - Walter Savage Landor We speak little if not egged on by vanity. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Evil tongues never want a whet. - Alain Rene Le Sage The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing. - Alain Rene Le Sage Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. - Sir Roger L'Estrange He must be little skilled in the world who thinks that men's talking much or little shall hold proportion only to their knowledge. - John Locke (1) Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. - William Matthews Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. - Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat) A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered. - Old French Saying I cannot tell thee, hour by hour, That I adore thee dearly; I cannot talk of passion's power-- But oh! I feel sincerely! - Frances Sargent Osgood No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. - Plato (originally Aristocles} If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. - Plutarch 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 Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk. - Plutarch Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen. - Plutarch The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing. - Plutarch Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. - Marcel Proust Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. - Francis Quarles If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. - Francis Quarles Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) Displaying page 3 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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