Quotes about Babble

When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.

And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Yet we flatter our strength unduly when we compare it even to a reed stick! For whatever vain men devise and babble concerning these matters is but smoke. Therefore Augustine with good reason often repeats the famous statement that free will is by its defenders more trampled down than strengthened.