These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
- Adelaide Crapsey
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
- Austin O Malley
Silence is the mother of Truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
- Calvin Coolidge
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles De Gaulle
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
- Charles Delint
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
- Che Guevara
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
- Edward H Richards
Great souls endure in silence.
- Friedrich Schiller
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
- Hebrew Proverb
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
- Ibn Gabirol
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison
The more you know the less you need to say.
- Jim Rohn
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
- Johannes Tauler
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say - but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.
- Jonathan Katz
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
- Kin Hubbard
There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.
- Madison Julius Cawein
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
- Mark Helprin
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
- Meister Eckhart
Silence gives consent.
- Pope Boniface VIII
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
- Pope Boniface VIII
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
- Richard Flecknoe
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Richard Flecknoe
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert L Stevenson
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
- Samuel Daniel
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Silvan Engel
The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.
- Sir J Davies
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith
There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time.
- Thomas Campbell
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
- Vittorio Alfieri
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
- W W Story
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can telWalt Whitmanl.
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
- William Alexander
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
- William James
When they hold their tongues they cry out.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Francis Bacon
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
- George Herbert
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.
- Joseph Addison
A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
- John Dryden
If A equals success, then the formula is, A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- John Dryden
A quiet mind cureth all.
- Robert Burton
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
- Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle
Silence is more eloquent than words.
- Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together, that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
- Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle
The silente man still suffers wrong.
- Unattributed Author
