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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.
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Bible
Whose talk is of bullocks.
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Douglas Jerrold
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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Goldoni
He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]
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James Merrick
Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
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James Russell Lowell
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
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John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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John Gay
My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.
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Matthew Prior
They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.
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Rudyard Kipling
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War.
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Samuel Butler
But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
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William Cowper
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
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William Shakespeare
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath?
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