Quotes 7

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.

Yiddish proverb

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

A person needs two years to learn to speak, and sixty years to learn to keep your mouth shut.

Lion Feuchtwanger

A chatty person is an open letter which everybody can read.

Pierre Boiste

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Jewish Proverb