Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
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Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942Related quotes
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“Young conductors talk too much.”
Pierre Monteux
(1875–1964) French conductor
From Monteux, Doris G (1965). It's All in the Music: The Life and Work of Pierre Monteux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. OCLC 604146, p. 196
“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
Pt. I, lines 532–533. Compare Matthew Prior, Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana, "They always talk who never think".
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Constantine P. Cavafy
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As Much As You Can http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&cat=1
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“Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.”
John Wayne
(1907–1979) American film actor
Variant: Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
“Don’t talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.”
Niki Lauda
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