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Category: Oration and Silence

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1. "To let someone speak and to listen to it - these are two entirely different questions."

Kazimierz Matan

2. "In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."

Terence, "Eunuchus"

Quotations about: Various

3. "If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."

William Somerset Maugham

4. "Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."

Anon.

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

5. "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: God and Religion

6. "Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

7. "A word is elegy to what it signifies."

Robert Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

8. "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

9. "My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Power and Weakness

10. "What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter."

Baruch Spinoza

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Human

11. "Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

Horace, "Epistles"

12. "Words express neither objects nor ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

13. "Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary."

Evan Esar

14. "I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."

Rodney Dangerfield

Quotations about: Marriage

15. "What betrays us most often is neither our friends nor foes but our own tongue."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal

16. "The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."

Henry S. Haskings

17. "I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Calvin Coolidge

18. "The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

German proverb

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

19. "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

20. "The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body."

Jean Baudrillard, "America"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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21. "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

22. "What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Life and Death

23. "Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

24. "I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

Ros Gelderman

Quotations about: Memory -:- Various

25. "What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."

Hansell B. Duckett

26. "The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

Lech Walesa

Quotations about: Various

27. "The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."

Swedish proverb

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Question and Problem

28. "Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

29. "Silence is safer than speech."

Epictetus, "Encheiridion"

30. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

31. "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."

Thomas Hardy

32. "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

33. "Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery, "The Life of William Pitt"

34. "Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."

Henry Brooks Adams

Quotations about: God and Religion

35. "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."

Aldous Huxley, "Point Counter Point"

36. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Quotations about: Good and Evil

37. "Silence is a text easy to misread."

Alfred Angelo Attanasio, "The Eagle and the Sword"

38. "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

39. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

40. "As was his language so was his life."

Seneca the Younger

Quotations about: Marriage

41. "Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."

John Wayne

Quotations about: Art and Culture

42. "Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Various

43. "A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent."

Danish proverb

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

44. "Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Marriage

45. "A man's ruin lies in his tongue."

Egyptian proverb

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

46. "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

47. "If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

48. "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."

Karel Čapek

Quotations about: Human -:- Nature and Animals

49. "There were grammatical errors even in his silence."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

50. "A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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