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It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric. - Joseph Addison Talkers and futile persons are commonly vain and credulous withal, for he that talketh what he knoweth will also talk what he knoweth not; therefore set it down that a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral: and in this part it is good, that a man's face gives his tongue leave to speak; for the discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness, and betraying by how much it is many times more marked and believed than a man's words. - Francis Bacon The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance. - Francis Bacon She spake, And his love-wilder'd and idolatrous soul Clung to the airy music of her words, Like a bird on a bough, high swaying in the wind. - Philip James Bailey Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech, And holds mine ear in blissful slavery. - Philip James Bailey Speak gently! 'tis a little thing Dropped in the heart's deep well: The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell. - David Bates, Speak Gently, often wrongfully attributed to G.W. Langford I didn't really say everything I said. - Yogi Berra Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to. - Christian Nestell Bovee If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. - Ashleigh Brilliant And we talk'd--oh, how we talk'd! her voice so cadenc'd in the talking, Made another singing--of the soul! a music without bars-- While the leafy sounds of woodlands, humming round where we were walking, Brought interposition worthy--sweet,--as skies about the stars, And she spake such good thoughts natural, as if she always thought them. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. - John Calvin If you don't wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. - Thomas Carlyle I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Cautiously avoid talking of the domestic affairs either of yourself or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip, theirs are nothing to you. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) However irregular and desultory his talk, there is method in the fragments. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse. - Jeremy Collier Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry. - Charles Caleb Colton It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth. - Charles Caleb Colton There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! - Charles Caleb Colton Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth. - Oliver Cromwell Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty. - John Philpot Curran 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 Even wit is a burden when it talks too long. - John Dryden Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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