“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.
Original: (pt) Quem fala demais dá "bom-dia" a cavalo!
“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.
“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
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)
Chrétien de Troyes French poet and trouvère
Nus ne puet estre trop parliers
Qui sovent tel chose ne die
Qui torné li est affolie,
Car li sages dit et retrait:
Qui trop parole, il se mesfait.
Source: Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Line 1650.
“He who talks much cannot always talk well.”
Carlo Goldoni (1707–1794) Italian playwright and librettist
Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene.
I. 6.
Pamela (c. 1750)
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"Too Much Attention" (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Too Much Attention" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR47R4uWdDo (song on YouTube)
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Charmed Thirds
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
Max Brand (1892–1944) American novelist, and short story writer
On writing westerns
Attributed