Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Gossip is hardly uplifting.
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
The only thing I've ever stolen are hours out of people's lives with meandering conversations.
When you are in a team sometimes you hear 'Blah, blah, blah' complaining all the time about small things.
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!
Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.
