Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain. – Author Unknown

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. – Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it. – George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879