They talk most who have the least to say.
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
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.
He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.
Writers talk too much.
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Honestly, I think we in the WWE are very underrated as performers. What we do would be very difficult for even an experienced actor. To go out and sometimes have 15 minutes of verbiage, sometimes have to ad-lib and then, of course, have other variables such as the interaction with the audience, it can be challenging.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.
People like to run their mouths.
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.
This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
