Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
I need not suffer in silence while I can still moan, whimper, and complain.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Silence is not always golden; sometimes it is yellow.
Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
Please sound your horn if you agree with the Noise Abatement Society. - Car sticker
Ko kurum magana ce. Even silence speaks. - Hausa proverb, Nigeria.
A silent wife is a gift of the Lord. Sirach 26:14
Silence is the virtue of fools -Francis Bacon
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.-Thomas Carlyle
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Dionysus the Elder
The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound. - Sam Ewing , The Saturday Evening Post 7/14/97
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence, and if he knew this he would no longer be ignorant. -Sa'di Gulistan
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. - Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928)
A man is known by the silence he keeps.- Oliver Herford(1863-1935 )In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.- Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
It is the wise head that makes the still tongue. -W. J. Lucas
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.- Sam Rayburn (1882 &endash; 1961)
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.-La Rochefoucauld
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.-Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901 - 1979)
He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. -Sydney SMITH
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence. - A.W. Tozer, The Works of A.W. Tozer
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