| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Babbler |
| | | They always talk who never think. Prior. | 1 |
| Who think too little, and who talk too much. Dryden. | 2 |
| It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other’s ears. Bishop Hall. | 3 |
| Fie! what a spendthrift he is of his tongue! Shakespeare. | 4 |
| Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu. | 5 |
| | 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. | 6 | | |
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