They always talk who never think. –Matthew Prior, Upon This Passage in Scaligerana, 1697
Matthew Prior, Upon This Passage in Scaligerana.
Constant talkers rarely take time to truly think; silence and reflection have value.
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Author Robert Fulghum tells this story of one of his professors, a wise man whose name was Alexander Papaderos: At the l…
— Robert Fulghum
An old New England farmer was known as a man of few words. He spoke very little and, when he did, the words seemed to co…
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. –Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820-1822, vol. 1, no. 183
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking.
— Mary Lowry
In St. Mary’s Church at Cambridge, England, there is a hassock with these words embroidered on it: “Think —Thank.” If we…
— Thank.” If we stopped to think more
He who talks without thinking runs more risks than he who thinks without talking.
