1,251 Quotes About Talking

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

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.

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.