William Baldwin Quotes

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

They talk most who have the least to say.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

Words are the money of fools.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

All tongue, without either head or heart.’

He could talk a dog off a meat wagon. He talked a lot but said nothing.

A lot of people talk too much. They speak... except they don't.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Emptie vessels sound most.

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.