Silent Quotes

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. (Plutarch)
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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. View quote
Pythagoras
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. View quote
Publilius Syrus
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. View quote
Pythagoras
No fool can be silent at a feast. View quote
Solon
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. View quote
George Washington
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. View quote
Victor Hugo
What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question? (Gertrude Stein)
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny. View quote
George Washington
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. View quote
Winston Churchill
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. View quote
Henry van Dyke
In times of war, the law falls silent. View quote
Cicero
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. View quote
James Madison
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. View quote
George Carlin
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy... (Georges Rouault)
An event... upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. View quote
Edmund Burke
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
To hear, one must be silent. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits looking overharbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. View quote
Carl Sandburg
📖 Silent Proverbs