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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Babbler

They always talk who never think.

Prior.

Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Dryden.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other’s ears.

Bishop Hall.

Fie! what a spendthrift he is of his tongue!

Shakespeare.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.

Montesquieu.

  • Tut! tut! my lord! we will not stand to prate;
  • Talkers are no good doers, be assured;
  • We go to use our hands, and not our tongues.
  • Shakespeare.