Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
—John Wayne
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
—Christopher Morley
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
—May Sarton
I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
—Ned Vizzini in It’s Kind of a Funny Story
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
—Ernest Hemingway
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
—James McNeill Whistler
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
—Germain G. Glien
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
—Peter O'Toole
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
—Marcel Marceau
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
—Dame Rose Macaulay
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
—Plato
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
—Thomas Fuller
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
—W. Somerset Maugham
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
—George Burns