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Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

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.

Great souls endure in silence.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

The more you know the less you need to say.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.