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- They always talk who never think.
- Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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