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Opinions
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.
Self-discipline
W. K. Hope
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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Freedom
Edgar Watson Howe
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Truth
Edgar Watson Howe
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Silence
Kin Hubbard
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Jefferson
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Fasting
St. Jerome
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Talking is the disease of age.
Age and Aging
Ben Johnson
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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Learning
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Law and Lawyers
Franklin P. Jones
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Speakers and Speaking
Ben Jonson
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
Selfishness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Egotism
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Friends and Friendship
Charles Lamb
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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Speakers and Speaking
Ann Landers
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Motivation
Walter Savage Landor
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Wisdom
Doug Larson
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Critics and Criticism
Fran Lebowitz
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Conversation
Fran Lebowitz
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Belief
Walter Lippmann
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Affection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun