Silence is Golden
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A closed mouth gathers no feet.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain
After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music. - Aldous Huxley
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway
Always try to stop talking before people stop listening.
Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like
assuming that just because you can see you can read. - Tony Alessandra
Be careful of your thoughts ... they may become words at any moment.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -Lord Chesterfield
Better to let 'em wonder why you didn't talk than why you did.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Children seldom misquote you.
In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. - Charlie Kaufman
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
Great public speakers listen to the audience with their eyes.
If most people said what's on their minds, they'd be speechless. - Alfred E. Neuman
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong,
and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right. - Jim Fiebig
It's a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet
because you never know when you'll have to eat them. - Alfred E. Neuman
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Dionysius the Elder
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue,
in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Caleb Colton
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. - Margaret Millar
Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - Niels Bohr
Never let your tongue cut your own throat. - Chinese Proverb
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. - Norman Ford
No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant
O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough.
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill
One doesn't speak unless he is sure he can improve on the silence.
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. - Dean Rusk
People with narrow minds usually have large mouths.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
The less you talk, the more you are listened to. - Abigail van Buren
The more a man talks the less his words are worth.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place
but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill
The tongue weighs practically nothing but so few people can hold it.
The way to become boring is to say everything. - Voltaire
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.
- Thomas Fuller
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
They always talk who never think. - Matthew Prior
Think twice before you speak, especially if you intend to say what you think.
Too often do people who want to offer sound advice offer more sound than advice.
- Alfred E. Neuman
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said rather than all that could be said.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- Abigail Adams
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
- Diogenes Laertius
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
Why don't closed minds ever come with closed mouths?
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
You don't have to explain something you never said. - Calvin Coolidge
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