Verbal Carelessness Quotes

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

You're short on ears and long on mouth.

One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.