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A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but atinkling cymbal, wherethere isno love. See Bible121:9.
It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
In all labour there is profit: but thetalkof the lips tendeth only to penury.
Talk, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
Most business meetings are staged to supply people who'd rather talk than work with people who'd rather listen than work.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
'It's very easy to talk,'said Mrs Mantalini.'Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg,'replied Mr Mantalini; 'for the yolk runs down the waistcoat, and yolk of egg does not match any waistcoat but a yellow waistcoat, demmit.'
But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much.
Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind, and listen to what others say about subjects you have studied but recently. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
It's good to talk.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry box.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there.You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.
When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
Mydear friend, clear your mind ofcant You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.
Wenn ichKultur h o« reentsichere ich meinen Browning! When I hear anyone talk of cultureI take off the safety catch on my Browning!
To try to talk to the young people who will run the futurein ten minutesis a little like trying to put a cantaloupe in a coke bottle.
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. Kipling And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.
The surest way notto be remembered istotalk aboutthe way you want to be.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.
I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talkas long as they do what I say.
There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert people. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice.
For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.
Murder is always a mistake One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Wenn ein L o« we sprechen k o« nnte, wir k o« nnten ihn nicht verstehen. If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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