327 Proverbs about Talk / Page 3
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A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk -- a good man about what he has seen and heard.42.
Although there exist many thousands of subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.43.
Drunkards talk to the gods.44.
Not only those who can talk the best tell you the most interesting things.45.
Talking doesn't get your rice cooked.46.
Talking without thinking is shooting without aiming.47.
The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food.48.
Though talking face to face, their hearts are a thousand miles apart.49.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.50.
To make good conversation there are a thousand subjects, but there are still those who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.51.
To talk goodness is not good . . . only to do it is.52.
When a woman talks to you, smile but do not listen.53.
When people only talk about things they understand then a great silence will descend upon the world.54.
When with dwarfs, do not talk about pygmies.55.
With a frog in the well you don't talk about the ocean.56.
Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.57.
Drinking with a bosom friend, a thousand shots are too few; Talking with a disagreeable person, half a sentence is too many.58.
Fighting a wolf with a flex stalk - either side is afraid of the other.59.
A mantis stalking a cicada is unaware of an oriole behind.60.
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