| Author |
Quotes |
| Adelaide Crapsey | These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. |
| Austin O Malley | If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Silence is the mother of Truth. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. |
| Calvin Coolidge | If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. |
| Cato | 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. |
| Charles De Gaulle | Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. |
| Charles Delint | 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. |
| Che Guevara | Silence is argument carried on by other means. |
| Edward H Richards | 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? |
| Friedrich Schiller | Great souls endure in silence. |
| Hebrew Proverb | If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. |
| Ibn Gabirol | I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. |
| James Madison | 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. |
| Jim Rohn | The more you know the less you need to say. |
| Johannes Tauler | 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. |
| Jonathan Katz | 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. |
| Kin Hubbard | It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. |
| Madison Julius Cawein | There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. |
| Mark Helprin | Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. |
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