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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
Mark Twain
“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Oscar Wilde
“I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
“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
“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
“I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wonder what you would think of this little number. I wonder what you would say if you knew.”
Ani Difranco
“To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish”
Chinese Proverbs
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
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