Quotes
Quotes about Talk
If people listened to themselves more often, they would talk less.
The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons.
Why is it when we talk to God we're prayingâbut when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
Talk doesn't cook rice.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." -George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very endâmuch more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in domestic battering? Is it men or women who commit the most rapes? Is it men or women who vote for the most executions? Is it men or women who promote war, vote for war, kill in war? Is it men or women who as 'talk show hosts' allow no talk? Is it men or women who are more often pedophiles? Is it men or women who torture lab animals more?
It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
