Silence Quotes
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. (Quote by - Lech Walesa)
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives. (Quote by - Paul Weyrich)
A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I'm exhausted from not talking. (Quote by - Sam Goldwyn)
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. (Quote by - W.W. Story)
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. (Quote by - Mark Helprin)
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. (Quote by - J. Enoch Powell)
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. (Quote by - Karl Shapiro)
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. (Quote by - Robert Stone)
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont)
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. (Quote by - Jane Rule)
Silence is the mother of Truth. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
I continued to protect him with my silence. (Quote by - Joyce Maynard)
We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent. (Quote by - Pierre Nicole)
Better silent than stupid. (Quote by - German proverb)
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
In some causes silence is dangerous. (Quote by - Saint Ambrose)
Silence in times of suffering is the best. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. (Quote by - Sir J Davies)
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue: it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin. (Quote by - William Penn )
If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. (Quote by - Matthew Perry)
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. (Quote by - Aishwarya Rai)
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)
Silence has never brought us anything of worth (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. (Quote by - William Dean Howells)
Be silent, or say something better than silence. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. (Quote by - Latin proverb)
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. (Quote by - Alex Trebek)
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. (Quote by - Meister Eckhart)
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. (Quote by - Marcel Marceau)
Silence does not always mark wisdom. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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. (Quote by - Jonathan Katz)
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. (Quote by - Sophocles)
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Quote by - Robert L. Stevenson)
Silence never yet betrayed any one! (Quote by - Antoine de Rivarol)
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. (Quote by - Dino De Laurentiis)
Silence more musical than any song. (Quote by - Christina Georgina Rossetti)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
Silence gives consent. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
He sees only night, and hears only silence. (Quote by - Jacques Delille)
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it (Quote by - Hannah More)
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. (Quote by - Martin Tupper)
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family. (Quote by - Cybill Shepherd)
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. (Quote by - Emily Watson)
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. (Quote by - Devon Werkheiser)
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall. (Quote by - Trey Anastasio)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)
Speech is silver; silence is golden. (Quote by - German proverb)
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way. (Quote by - Loretta Young)
How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. (Quote by - Antoine de St. Exupery)
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. (Quote by - Anon.)
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? (Quote by - Jules Michelet)
The breathing miracle into silence passed! (Quote by - Gerald Massey)
Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty. (Quote by - Bishop John Jewell)
I can hear the roar of women's silence. (Quote by - Thomas Sankara)
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Speech is great; but silence is greater. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. (Quote by - Georg Trakl)
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there. (Quote by - Robert Scheer)
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. (Quote by - Marianne Craig Moore)
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. (Quote by - Dean Rusk)
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people. (Quote by - Cynthia McKinney)
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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? (Quote by - Edward H. Richards)
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 tell. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Silence has been given to woman the better to express her thoughts. (Quote by - Louis Claude Joseph Desnoyers)
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
Lying is done with words and also with silence. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)
Silence is more musical than any song. (Quote by - Christina Rossetti)
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. (Quote by - Shelley Winters)
A moment of silence is not inherently religious. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Connor)
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Nothing is more useful than silence. (Quote by - Menander)
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. - The Divine Comedy (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. (Quote by - Zane Grey)
There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. (Quote by - Madison Julius Cawein)
Oppression can only survive through silence (Quote by - Carmen De Monteflores)
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. (Quote by - Philip Pullman)
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. (Quote by - James Broughton)
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. (Quote by - Susan Griffin)
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. (Quote by - Jonathan Franzen)
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
Silence is man's chief learning. (Quote by - Palladas)
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Silence is more eloquent than words. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. (Quote by - Marcel Marceau)
He has the gift of quiet. (Quote by - John Le Carre)
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. (Quote by - Wangari Maathai)
A man is known by the silence he keeps. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. (Quote by - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling)
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. (Quote by - Pope Boniface VIII)
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
A quiet mind cureth all. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power. (Quote by - William James)
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. (Quote by - Hazrat Inayat Khan)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. (Quote by - Bible)
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. (Quote by - Joseph Sobran)
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. (Quote by - Helen Thomas)
It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. (Quote by - Brittany Daniel)
These be three silent things: The Falling snow the hour before the dawn the mouth of one just dead. (Quote by - Adelaide Crapsey)
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. (Quote by - Austin O'malley)
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. (Quote by - Robert M. La Follette)
The silente man still suffers wrong. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
It is tact that is golden, not silence. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. (Quote by - Zeno)
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. (Quote by - Amy Goodman)
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. (Quote by - Henry Giles)
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)
Be silent and safe. silence never betrays you. (Quote by - John Boyle O'Reilly)
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
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. (Quote by - James Madison)
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. (Quote by - Leopold Stokowski)
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. (Quote by - Silvan Engel)
It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. (Quote by - Greek proverb)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. (Quote by - James Hervey)
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. (Quote by - Judy Garland)
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? (Quote by - Sophocles)
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. (Quote by - Johannes Tauler)
In fourscore years and four more, then we shall know the truth, but before then - silence. (Quote by - Stan Stevens)
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. (Quote by - George Catlin)
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. (Quote by - Cynthia McKinney)
Silence is a source of great strength. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. (Quote by - George Washington Cable)
The silent dog is the first to bite. (Quote by - Old saying)
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot )
Great souls endure in silence. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. (Quote by - Daniel Barenboim)
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. (Quote by - Confucius)
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. (Quote by - Alice Cooper)
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Silence is a friend who will never betray. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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. (Quote by - Charles Delint)
There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. (Quote by - Nicholas Udall)
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? (Quote by - Federico Fellini)
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Silence is argument carried on by other means. (Quote by - Che Guevara)
Silence Of The Lambs is definitely very frightening. (Quote by - Jonathan Jackson)
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. (Quote by - Jean Stafford)
It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Quote by - John Morley)
The pause that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
When they hold their tongues they cry out. (Quote by - Cicero)
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Maxims (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. (Quote by - Paul Robeson)
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
Silence is the virtue of fools. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We have friends but they have not been made by silence or pussyfooting. If we have enemies, we do not placate them. (Quote by - William Grimes)
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. (Quote by - Ibn Gabirol)
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Silence sweeter is than speech (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
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. (Quote by - Cato)
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. (Quote by - Lawrence Coughlin)
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. (Quote by - Plato)
I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. (Quote by - Syrus)
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. (Quote by - Ovid)
Silence is the unbearable repartee. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. (Quote by - Sophocles)
The more you know the less you need to say. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it. (Quote by - Martin Buber)
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. (Quote by - Gordon Getty)
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. (Quote by - Epictetus)
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. (Quote by - William R Benet)
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. (Quote by - Samuel Daniel)
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. (Quote by - Hebrew Proverb)
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly. (Quote by - Sting)
