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Silence |
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Quotations
 | It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 44 likes |
 | It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 24 likes |
 | If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 16 likes |
 | Speak only if it improves upon the silence. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 11 likes |
| The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 11 likes |
 | I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 10 likes |
 | The silence of the people is the lesson of kings. — Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, main figure of the French Revolution 9 likes |
 | The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 8 likes |
 | When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 7 likes |
 | They say that each person is an island, this is not true, each person is a silence, yes, each with his silence, each with the silence that he is. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 6 likes |
 | Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes |
 | All the great pleasures of life are silent. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 5 likes |
 | In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 5 likes |
 | He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
| If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 5 likes |
 | Silence does not always mark wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Silence is the virtue of a fool. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 4 likes |
 | The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence… — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 4 likes |
 | Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 4 likes |
 | Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 3 likes |
 | God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 3 likes |
 | So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 3 likes |
 | I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 2 likes |
 | Virgil had the gift of expressing much in little, and sometimes in silence. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | Silence is made of unsaid words. — Marguerite Yourcenar, 1903-1987, French writer 1 likes |
 | You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. |
 | Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. |
 | Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. |
| Silence is more eloquent than words. |
 | I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. |
 | Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. |
 | Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet? |
 | Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. |
 | The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. |
 | The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
 | Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. |
 | Who would deny that sound cinema has made us discover silence? Silence is the most beautiful conquest of speaking. |
 | Silence is the last joy of the unhappy. |
| For all evils there are two remedies: time and silence. |
 | If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence. |
 | Silence may be golden but it solves nothing. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | I have an appetite for silence. |
 | No love can survive muteness. |
 | Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. |
Latin Quotes
 | Without the sun I fall silent. Sine sole sileo. — Medieval Sundial motto 32 likes |
 | He who is silent consents. Qui tacet consentit. 30 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 2 likes |
 | All cypresses show midnight. All fingers Silence. |
Funny Quotes
 | Never miss a good chance to shut up. — Will Rogers, 1879-1935, American actor 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | For all women silence is beauty. Γυναιξί πάσαις κόσμον η σιγή φέρει. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 13 likes |
 | Your very silence is as good as a confession. Αυτό δε τo σιγάν ομολογούντος εστί σου. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis 10 likes |
 | Don’t talk about the things you don’t know and when you know, don’t say anything. Ο αν μη ίδης, μη λέγε. Ειδώς σιγά. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 7 likes |
| Silence alone is not an apology. Μόνη σιγή μεταμέλειαν ου φέρει. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 6 likes |
| Silence is true wisdom’s best reply. Η γαρ σιωπή τοις σοφοίς απόκρισις. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 6 likes |
 | Being silent is better than talking. Κρείττον του λαλείν το σιγάν. 4 likes |
 | Often is man’s best wisdom to be silent. Το σιγάν πολλάκις εστί σοφώτατον ανθρώπω νοήσαι. — Pindar, 522-438 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 2 likes |
| You do not speak? But silence is a poor interpreter of words. Σιγάς; Σιωπή δ’ άπορος ερμηνεύς λόγων. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromeda 2 likes |
 | As to the rest I am silent. A big ox stands upon my tongue. Τα δ’ άλλα σιγώ. Βους επί γλώσσηι μέγας βέβηκεν. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark. — American Indian proverb ‐ Cheyenne 7 likes |
 | Silence is golden. 2 likes |
