These babble quotes will inspire you. Babble, talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging babble quotes, babble sayings, and babble proverbs.
Best Babble Quotes
- “It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway,’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.” ~ Mike Royko
- “There’s a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.” ~ Dan Harmon
- “I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood”.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.” ~ Robert Breault
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“April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.” ~ Eoin Colfer
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“Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.
When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk
into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business to an end.
Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight.” ~ Rumi - “Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.” ~ Julie Andrews
- “Some day there may be… machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o’er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods – in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibition and gratefully to receive the ‘Royal Medal’.” ~ Edward Steichen
- “As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.” ~ Renita J. Weems
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“There’s always time for babbling.” ~ Eoin Colfer
- “What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent…” Waxillium glanced at him. “That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.” ~ Brandon Sanderson
- “If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!” ~ William Shakespeare - “there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. … As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly – just once too often – when the other longed to be left in peace.” ~ J. E. Buckrose
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“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk by falling, to talk by babbling, to shoot a basket by missing, and to color the inside of a square by scribbling outside the box. Those who intensely fear failing end up falling short of their potential. We either learn to fail or we fail to learn.” ~ Tal Ben-Shahar
- “Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.” ~ Johannes Tauler
- “Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.” ~ St. Sukie de la Croix
- “Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.” ~ John Cusack
- “In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect” ~ Heather O’Neill
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“Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.” ~ Gene Simmons
- “At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.” ~ Maria Montessori
- “..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You’re in this place. There’s other people all around you, but they don’t understand you and you don’t understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.” ~ Neal Stephenson
- “Yeah. When you want what’s real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.” ~ Deb Caletti
- “Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn’t matter that they faced in opposite directions – so long as they faced each other.’ Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}” ~ Diana Gabaldon
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“From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
- “Unbelievable. After what just happened between us no, I don’t have any right. None at all. We’re barely a couple. We’re not even sleeping together. I have to-” What in God’s name are you babbling about?” “You’re cheating on me!” “I never cheat.” ~ Jennifer Rardin
- “Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.” ~ Mindy Kaling
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“Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.” ~ Kevin Hearne
- “The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.” ~ Kenneth Grahame
- “We should stop going around babbling about how we’re the greatest democracy on earth, when we’re not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.” ~ Gore Vidal
- “At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that’s who you come to see.” ~ Mike Tyson
- “We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning–of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party’s policy.” ~ Nicolae Ceausescu
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“I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.” ~ Mike Tyson
- “Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.” ~ Kabir - “Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.” ~ Sandra Scarr
- “Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)” ~ Auguste Rodin
- “Islam is the religion of peace. And Islam, genuine, real Muslims are as opposed to Al-Qaeda and ISIS as we are. That is what has been dictated to our law enforcement agents by their superiors. If those were your instructions, and you have a terror attack and you’re out there reporting to the media, trying to answer questions, you’d sound like a babbling buffoon, too, because you’d have to come up with ways to violate the very common sense you know is true.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
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“There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He’d talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, “Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you’re going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it’s like you’re vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.” ~ Paul Laffoley
- “Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air.” ~ Josh Billings
- “Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson’s mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.” ~ Gilbert Ryle
- “The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself–who according to the Rabbins was also the first author–not being an original; the only original author being God.” ~ Herman Melville
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“Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.” ~ David Luiz
- “No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.” ~ John L. Lewis
- “When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It’s not like somebody’s gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.” ~ Zoro
- “I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.” ~ Jojo Moyes
- “Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.” ~ Ovid
