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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
Oscar Wilde
“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
Bill Watterson
“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
Mark Twain
“Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
C.S. Lewis
“I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.”
Kingsley Amis
“The less you talk, the more you're listened to.”
Abigail Van Buren
“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
Winnie the Pooh
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