Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Constant talkers are unheard.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.
Talking is the disease of age.
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.
We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
What can I say? I'm a talker.
It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter - goals, social media, image, persona. And if you're able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
Gossip is conversation about people.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
I talk a lot when I'm nervous.
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
