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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

- Thoreau, Henry David

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Best Quotes about Silence

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

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?

Richards, Edward Hersey

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.

Katz, Jonathan

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

Those that are silent profess consent.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

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