Silence is golden; speech is silver


American Proverb

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Speech is silver; silence is golden.
SWISS PROVERB
Speech is silver but silence is golden.
LEO TOLSTOY
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Sile...
THOMAS CARLYLE
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but...
MURIEL SPARK
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Silence is also speech
PROVERB
Silence is golden but shouting is fun.
UNKNOWN
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Silence is golden, unless you have kids, then silence is just plain suspicious.
ANONYMOUS
Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
AMIT ABRAHAM
Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA
Silence is safer than speech.
EPICTETUS
Silence is golden. Too bad nobody is buying.
ANONYMOUS
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Speech is great; but silence is greater.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.
ANON.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Speech is oft repented, silence never
DANISH PROVERB
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
BOB MONKHOUSE
Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted.
BOB MONKHOUSE
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the sam...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as e...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE
David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON
Silence is golden, and example is the best teacher, so is a silent example a golden teacher, ..... o...
UNKNOWN
Speech is the small change of silence.
GEORGE MEREDITH
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
GEORGE HERBERT
Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB
real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Silence is golden but if silence is wrapped under guilt it will be culminate into dissatisfaction,fe...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE
When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
SUSAN GRIFFIN
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH
The Tin Rule is me first. The Silver Rule is you first. The Golden Rule is all of us first!
DOMO GESHE
His golden locks time hath to silver turned.
GEORGE PEELE
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech
EDITH WHARTON
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence
PROVERB
I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA
There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every chang...
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silenc...
AESCHYLUS
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
XENOCRATES
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
ANONYMOUS
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
SIMONIDES
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS
Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab...
SAMUEL BECKETT
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility
JOSEPH CONRAD
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on t...
JOSH BILLINGS
The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppressi...
AYSHA TARYAM
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
SUSANA MARTINEZ
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn’t matter! As long as the bridge takes you...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH
Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.
EUNY HONG
The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI
There is a great risk that Christians may become idolaters if they lose the meaning of silence. Our ...
ROBERT SARAH
The American courts ruled that money is speech and speech can't be limited in politics because of fr...
LISA YOUNG
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
BOYLE ROCHE
Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.
LEMONY SNICKET
Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY
Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
DWIGHT L. MOODY
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parr...
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