Talking Quotes

• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

• It takes a great man to be a good listener.

• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

• Those who are preoccupied with 'making a statement' usually don't have any statements worth making.

• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

• Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

• Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

• If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.

• What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

• A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

• I think 'no comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

• People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

• The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.

• Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

• Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

• Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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