He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

Francois Rabelais
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  2. My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. - Patricia Briggs

  3. Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other... - Roald Dahl

  4. It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are. - Marty Rubin

  5. Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech. - Confucius

More Quotes By Francois Rabelais
  1. There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

  2. We have here other fish to fry.

  3. If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.

  4. Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

  5. Nature abhors a vacuum.

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