Quotes about talking
319 quotes from 193 people
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of DiscretionI have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
Kin Hubbard1868–1930Abe Martin’s Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914).Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961From a set of “rules for life” sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner’s memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936).
