Today Quotes
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
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.Mahatma Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
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.Cato the Elder
The unspoken word never does harm.Kossuth
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras