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Silence

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Best Quotes about Silence

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Those that are silent profess consent.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Young, Brigham

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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

Smith, Sydney

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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Voltaire

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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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

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

Blaise Pascal

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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan