Quotes 7

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

Lion Feuchtwanger

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Pierre Boiste

The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.

Yiddish proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

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