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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
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Ovid
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Irish Proverb
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
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Walter Bagehot
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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.
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Source Unknown
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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Marcel Marceau
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From politics it was an easy step to silence.
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Jane Austen
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Sydney Smith
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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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Oscar Wilde
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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
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Ibn Gabirol
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Xenocrates of Chalcedon
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
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Publilius Syrus
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Samuel Beckett
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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.
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Source Unknown
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Calvin Coolidge
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39 votes
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
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Austin O'Malley
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
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Kin Hubbard
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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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Silvan Engel
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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Francis Beaumont
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33 votes
Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.
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Source Unknown
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15 votes
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Robert Burns
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28 votes
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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Publilius Syrus
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8 votes
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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John Dryden
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Plutarch
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Silence implies consent.
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Proverb
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Silence is argument carried on by other means.
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Che Guevara
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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Josh Billings
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
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William Shakespeare
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Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
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Zacharia
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
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Confucius
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Charles De Gaulle
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Francis Bacon
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
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Brigham Young
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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
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Scott Sheddan
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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
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Source Unknown
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Still waters run deep.
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English Proverb
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Thomas Hardy
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70 votes