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Category: Oration and Silence

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

Terence, "Eunuchus"

Other categories: Various

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

William Somerset Maugham

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

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Other categories: Family and Loneliness

4. "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

Other categories: God and Religion

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

Joseph Joubert

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

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

Robert Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Thomas Jefferson

Other categories: Talent and Genius

8. "My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: God and Religion -:- Power and Weakness

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

Baruch Spinoza

Other categories: Egoism -:- Human

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

Horace, "Epistles"

11. "Words express neither objects nor ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

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

Evan Esar

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

Rodney Dangerfield

Other categories: Marriage

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Loyalty and Betrayal

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

Henry S. Haskings

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

German proverb

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Adlai E. Stevenson II

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

Jean Baudrillard, "America"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

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

Other categories: Life and Death

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

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Ros Gelderman

Other categories: Memory -:- Various

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Lech Walesa

Other categories: Various

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

Swedish proverb

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Question and Problem

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

28. "Silence is safer than speech."

Epictetus, "Encheiridion"

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

Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

Other categories: Time and Passing

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

Thomas Hardy

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

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

32. "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"

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Other categories: God and Religion

34. "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"

35. "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

Other categories: Good and Evil

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

Alfred Angelo Attanasio, "The Eagle and the Sword"

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

Fran Lebowitz

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

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

Martin Luther King

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

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

Seneca the Younger

Other categories: Marriage

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

John Wayne

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Herbert Hoover

Other categories: Various

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

Danish proverb

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Marriage

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

Egyptian proverb

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

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

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

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

Karel Čapek

Other categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

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

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

50. "The eye tells what the tongue would hide."

Chief Joseph

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