The repository contains 19 quotes in the category “Silence.”
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933
Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616
Henry V
If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is “work,” Y is “play,” and Z is “keep your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
The way to become boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Will Rogers
1879 — 1935
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
1826 — 1877
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
1906 — 1989
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
1818 — 1885
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
Javan
1946 —
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
1889 — 1945
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
Austin O’Malley
1858 — 1932
Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
John Witherspoon
1723 — 1794
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
1819 — 1880
