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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Mark Twain
“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
“I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
“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
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Jane Austen
“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.”
Steve Martin
“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
“Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself”
Friedrich Nietzsche
