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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers. - Jonathan Swift Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character. - Jonathan Swift The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both. - Jonathan Swift Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. For so have I heard that all the noises and prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs and toads, is hushed and appeased upon the instant of bringing upon them the light of a candle or torch. Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolutions of the tongue. - Jeremy Taylor The greatest talkers in the days of peace have been the most pusillanimous in the day of temptation. - Jeremy Taylor He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which he will not like. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) If I were queen, I should command Madame de Stael to talk to me every day. - Madame Tesse Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind. - Isaac Watts Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart. - Thomas Wilson (2) The inexhaustible talk that was the flow of a golden sea of eloquence and wisdom. - William Winter Nor did we fail to see within ourselves What need there is to be reserved in speech, And temper all our thoughts with charity. - William Wordsworth Men talk only to conceal the mind. - Edward Young Displaying page 5 of 5 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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