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.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much
People [in politics] do go on and talk.
Who talks much, must talk in vain.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
He lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Writers talk too much.
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
I talk too much.
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it?
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Talkers expand like bread dough.
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
