“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
“He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.”
“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”
“I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.”
“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”
“I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.”
“And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.”
“If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
“The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.”
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
“I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.”
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”
“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
“When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.”
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?”
“The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.”
“An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.”
“It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”
“It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
“The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
“He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.”
“Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
“I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.”
“It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.”
“Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.”
“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
“Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?”
“Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.”