Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Silence is more musical than any song.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
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