We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Your tongue runs before your wit.
The mediocrity of his [Winston Churchill's] thinking is concealed by the majesty of his language.... He mistakes verbal facilities for mental inspiration.
Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.
Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.
There are some who speak one moment before they think
We all say things that we later regret.
It's the nature often on social media that people say things without really thinking through their position.
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.
Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
We know not what we do When we speak words.
It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.
My trouble is I talk first and think later.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
