TALK

Related Subjects: Address, Conversation, Scandal, Speech, Voting

1. You can't believe everything you hear—but you can repeat it.—Anonymous
   

2. In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling on any faggot rather than let the fire go out.—J. M. BARRIE, Tommy and Grizel
   

3. He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.—Bible, Proverbs 17:9
   

4. "The time has come," the Walrus said,
   "To talk of many things:
   Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
   Of cabbages—and kings—
   And why the sea is boiling hot—
   And whether pigs have wings."—LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass
   

5. There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

6. Who think too little, and who talk too much.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

7. They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.—GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
   

8. Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to escape. Talk never wholly dies away when voiced by many people.—HESIOD, Works and Days
   

9. There is so much good in the worst of us,
   And so much bad in the best of us,
   That it hardly behooves any of us
   To talk about the rest of us.—Attributed to GOVERNOR EDWARD HOCH, of Kansas
   

10. What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.—E. W. HOWE, Country Town Sayings
    

11. Whom the disease of talking once possesseth, he can never hold his peace. Nay, rather than he will not discourse he will hire men to hear him.—BEN JONSON, Timber
    

12. Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!—NATHANIEL LEE, Alexander the Great
    

13. Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbours.—MOLIERE, Tartuffe
    

14. The less men think, the more they talk.—MONTESQUIEU
    

15. They never taste who always drink;
    They always talk who never think.—MATTHEW PRIOR, Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana

16. 'Tis no time to talk.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

17. Let it serve for table-talk.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

18. Iago: She was a wight, if ever such wight were,—
    Desdemona: To do what?
    Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
    Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

19. Talkers are no good doers.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

20. A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

21. A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.—BERNARD SHAW, Getting Married
    

22. War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.—MARK TWAIN,
    Life on the Mississippi
    

23. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.—OSCAR WILDE