I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Error is always talkative.
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Love is talkative passion.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
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