Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) English clergyman
"Apples of Sodom," part II, sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
“Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things, — things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. I.
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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894Related quotes
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Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Dragon Blood
Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress
Quoted in Life https://books.google.com/books?id=77cRAQAAMAAJ&q=The+truth+is,+sex+doesn't+mean+that+much+to+me+now.+It+never+did,+really.+It+was+romance+I+wanted,+kisses+and+candlelight,+that+sort+of+thing.+I+never+did+dig+sex+very+much.&dq=The+truth+is,+sex+doesn't+mean+that+much+to+me+now.+It+never+did,+really.+It+was+romance+I+wanted,+kisses+and+candlelight,+that+sort+of+thing.+I+never+did+dig+sex+very+much.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO79P49ObSAhXIdSYKHQmSBYsQ6AEIGjAA, vol. 7 (1984), p. xxiv. <br class="br">On her marriages
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”
Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
“He who talks too much says "Good morning" to horses!”
Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure
Original: (pt) Quem fala demais dá "bom-dia" a cavalo!
Anne Carson (1950) Canadian poet
"God's Mother", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.
