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 | ""The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence,
but restraint."" | |
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Marianne Craig Moore
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| "A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you"re in deep
water." | |
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Sidney Goff
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| "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?" | |
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Edward H. Richards
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| "A yawn is a silent shout." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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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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| "As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist
golden,? "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather
express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity." | |
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John Keats
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| "Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no
dogma, no can"t. There are too many people walking around thinking they"re
sacred cows, and they"re only half right" | |
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Rosie Dimanno
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| "Great souls suffer in silence." | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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| "He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent." | |
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Marcus Porcius Cato
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| "He who knows how to be poor knows everything." | |
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Jules Michelet
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| "I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of
alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the
truth." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again
and again. I got it from Sumner Welles. To reporters at the Washington
airport, after conferring with President Truman at the White House,
February 12, 1946" | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z,
with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "If a word spoken in its time is worth one piece of money, silence in
its time is worth two." | |
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Proverb
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| "If you keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in
it." | |
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| "In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is a
misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent." | |
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Dionysius the Elder
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| "Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon
silence." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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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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| "Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning
virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud,
the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools.
To speak is to ... dissipate one"s strength; whereas what action demands is
concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one"s
thoughts." | |
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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| "One learns in life to keep silent and draw one"s own
confusions." | |
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
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| "One of the greatest sounds of them all?and to me it is a sound?is
utter, complete silence." | |
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André Kostelanetz
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| "Oppression can only survive through silence." | |
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Carmen de Monteflores
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| "Silence gives consent." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Silence is a friend who will never betray." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble
of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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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 the element in which great things fashion
themselves." | |
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Count Maurice Maeterlinck
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| "Silence is the perfectest 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 virtue of fools." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Silence is wonderful to listen to." | |
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Thomas Hardy
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| "Silence may be as variously shaded as speech." | |
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Edith Wharton
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| "The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on
him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself." | |
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Joseph Sobran
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| "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one
wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if
something could have materialized ? never knowing." | |
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Jim Rohn
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| "There are times when silence has the loudest voice." | |
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Leroy Brownlow
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| "To wish well is part of becoming well." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that
is better." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "Use the talents you possess for the woods would be a very silent
place if no birds sang except for the best." | |
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Unknown
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| "Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no
birds sang except those that sang best." | |
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Henry van Dyke
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| "Verily God will say on the Day of Judgement, O children of Adam! I
was sick and ye did not visit Me." And the sons of Adam will say, "O our
defender, how could we visit Thee? For thou art the Lord of the Universe,
and art free from sickness." And God will say, "O men! Such a one was sick
and you did not visit him." And God will say, "O children of Adam, I asked
you for food, and ye gave it me not?" And the children of Adam will say,
"O our patron, how could we give Thee food, seeing Thou art the cherisher
of the Universe, and art free from hunger and eating?" And God will say,
"Such a one asked you for bread and you did not give it him." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use
of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to
do." | |
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Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
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| "Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the
haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible
without surrender be on good terms with all persons. .... Therefore be at
peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors
and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful
world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." | |
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Max Ehrmann
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