verbal behavior Quotes

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.

You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And it's become more and more solidified, more and more entrenched.

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

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

I don't really shout that much.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.