The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am"

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously its an undo it yourself project.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

The best index to a persons character is how he treats people who cant do him any good and how he treats people who cant fight back.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground put some responsibility on their shoulders.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

If you want your children to turn out well spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter it usually spoils faster.

Its true some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.