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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can we talk?
Joan Rivers
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
Richard Armour
We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Henry Miller
They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
Matthew Prior
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
Thomas Mann
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6
Bible
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18
The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.
Patricia Ann Ball
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
William Hazlitt
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
Henry David Thoreau
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
Thomas Kempis
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
Source Unknown
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
A long tongue shortens life.
If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.
