In the dime stores and bus stations people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act on upon them?

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

If I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more.

When I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you, but particularly don't tell them where they know the fish.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Sex is better than talk...Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.