There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. Meg Greenfield
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. Samuel Butler
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less. Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels. Chuck Palahniuk
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about. Yiddish proverb
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Dr. Thomas Fuller
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. Scott Adams
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. Aldous Huxley
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk. Stephen Hawking
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Alfred North Whitehead
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagoras
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Life? Don't talk to me about life! Douglas Adams
Life? Don't talk to me about life!
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. G. K. Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
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