John Ray Quotes

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

I was a chatty kid.

I have such a big mouth.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Everyone always says more than they're supposed to.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

People like to run their mouths.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

I'm always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I'm a chatty guy.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I talk too much.

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

One of the most comical comments that my 'Wendy' watchers said is, 'She talks too much!' Duh, I'm a talk show host!

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.