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
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Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Samuel Butler
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When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. -Tommy Smothers
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We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

Epictetus
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. -Oscar Wilde
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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
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With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -Benjamin Disraeli
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Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish proverb
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Dr. Thomas Fuller
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Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. -Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Robert Frost
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Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. -John Wayne
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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
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. -Seneca
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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
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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
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. -Pythagoras
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Pythagoras
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Life? Don't talk to me about life!

Douglas Adams
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. -Sir Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. -John Ruskin
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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
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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
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I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. -Dylan Thomas
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